I get emails, on a regular basis, from people who have been to my website and have seen (and sometimes actually have read) various commentaries that I have written about Bible topics.  The people who have read things I’ve written usually will comment specifically on certain points, with which they agree or disagree.  In those cases, accordingly, I typically will respond to their comments.  It is not uncommon for me to have ongoing, logical, and rational disgussions with people like that.

When someone does not comment specifically on things I have written, but instead requests that I read commentaries and opinions that they have written, I usually will read what that person has written (or a portion of it, if it is quite lengthy, since I do not have the time to read a great deal of unsolicited material).  I usually will single out some points and indicate why I agree or disagree with them.

In many cases, when I disagree with a person’s viewpoints, that person will continue emailing me, attempting to convince me to adopt his/her viewpoints.  What such a person rarely will do is to cite specific points in my writings and comment why he/she believes that I am in error.  I have two things to say about this:

1. I have no interest in continually commenting about someone else’s viewpoints if that person has not taken the time to make clear, understandable observations about specific positions I have taken and explained.
   
   
2. It does not bother me at all if someone disagrees with my personal viewpoints.  I usually have no interest in attempting to persuade anyone, through argument or lengthy discussion, that I am right.  Therefore, I do not understand why so many people are vehement about attempting to get me to embrace their views about various topics.

In any case, I sometimes will take the time to comment on material someone has written and has asked me to read, or else has made statements in an email about which he/she has requested that I make comments.  However, if that person ignores the logic in my comments and continues to bombard me with continual reasons why I should adopt his/her views (especially when that person does not take the time to make constructive, logical comments on explicit points I have made in one of my commentaries or in an email response), I see no reason for our discussion to continue.

As an example, I have compiled the 20 emails—and my responses to many of those emails—of someone who wrote me for about 3 months, attempting to convince me that there is nothing in the Bible that speaks of a prophetic 70th Week (of 7 years) to occur in the future.  He steadfastly believed, and adamantly wanted for me to believe, that there are only 3½ years (not 7 years) remaining to fulfill Daniel 9:26,27.  In case you are interested in looking at an extremely lengthy example of what I have described above, click on the following link; I think you will understand why I lose interest in having a fruitless dialogue with anyone:

Since that word document is quite extensive (368 KB), it may take awhile to load if you have a slow internet connection.  I have changed the names of people mentioned within the emails.

Incidentally, since my correspondence with that person, the implementation of the seven-year European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has taken place.  More than anything I have seen, in over 35 years of studying Bible and prophecy topics, the ENP appears to fulfill the Daniel 9:27 prophecy more than anything else about which I’ve ever read or observed in my lifetime.  Read more about this here, if you wish:

If, indeed, the final seven years of this age have begun, I believe we have less than a handful of years before the appearance of Jesus Christ in the clouds—with His ultimate descent to earth to be at the end of the seven-year period, just before the beginning of the glorious Millennium.

Ted