So people think I am maligning you and I should be reported? For calling out your lifestyle? I think it would be great if you studied the Bible 8 hours a day. But there are only 24 hours in a day. Take 8 hours out for sleep, another 2 for meals, or maybe less if you get the meal prepared for you and eat it fast. But for arguments sake, let's say, 10 hours just to feed and restore the physical body.
So that leaves 14 hours left in the day. Minus the 8 hours a day studying the Bible, and now you have 6 hours left. How many hours a day to listen to those "hundreds of Internet preachers?" I don't know. I certainly don't have time in my life to listen to preachers on-line. I won't even listen to 2 minute sermons or 4 minute songs on YouTube or FB. But, again, pick a number of 1 hour a day? Because that would get you three 3 sermons per "100's" of Internet preachers, rounding the extra 64 days for maybe 4 sermons for his favourite preachers per year, and some single or double sermons by some of the lesser hundreds.
So now we are down to 5 hours left in the day. I would hope you go to church, maybe the occasional walk, shop for groceries, do laundry, etc. So take off another hour a day, leaving us with 4 hours a day on CC. Now assuming
Grace777 never goes out of the house, spends that extra 4 hours online, is it possible to even physically post 10,000 plus posts in 8 months, with only 4 short hours a day? Of course, a lot of those posts were copy and pastes, and the same scriptures over and over. But still, it does take a bit of thought to post, if you really want it to mean something? Or maybe that is just me?
So assuming Bruce has been here 8 months or 240 days, posting 4 hours a day, with 10,418 posts so far, if you add and multiply and divide that up (I know, show your work! 240 days X 4 hours per day = 960 hours. 10418 posts, which is the current running total posts, divided by 960 hours, = approximately 10.85 posts per day! Every day 7 days a week for 8 months.) That's hard work! That's a full time job! Even if so much of it is just regurgitating the same false doctrine and twisting the words of the Bible and people.
Oh, here is a perfect example of words being twisted - mine and his own.
Grace777 in post #119 page 6, which I quoted above:
"In this last bout of studying I have averaged 8 hours a day for the last 4 years. I just say that so that you can now perhaps start speaking with some more understanding."
This clearly says he "averaged" 8 hours a day for the last 4 years of Bible study. That means some days even more, and obviously a few other days, less.
Me in post #122 page 7
"Oh sorry, you read the Bible for what was it, 8 hours a day?" (I am just struggling to express the physical parameters, not criticizing for studying that much! Or even being online constantly, which is his privilege!)
Ok, then we come to Grace777's post #123 on page 7
"You can say what you want but I spoke the truth about how much I have studied - doing it in different forms as I didn't say I read the bible itself for 8 hours. I study - which mean different methods....including meditating and looking at the greek...to listening to who I feel the Lord wants me to listen to at the time."
Hmmm. One minute he is averaging studying 8 hours a day, and then in the rest of this paragraph, he outlines his methods as if that makes it clear he didn't mean what he said earlier. Except I have no problem with his study methods, if that is what he did. I applaud such dedication to the Word of God.
What I do not applaud is people who exaggerate. You simply cannot study the Word of God, whatever method - reading, meditating, praying, studying the Greek, word studies, even commetaries, which is a slight step away, but still a valid method of study, for 8 hours a day, and post on CC for hours and hours, and eat, sleep and live a bit, listen to "100's" of Internet preachers and their long sermons and have time to do it all. It is a physical impossibility. Oh wait, is he saying that listening to Internet preachers is part of his studies? Ok, maybe he is right about me, that is something I cannot abide, and it does not constitute proper Bible study, although of course, you are free to study however you want, don't try to get me to accept that is a valid method of study.
I would never condemn anyone's lifestyle that is dedicated to studying the word of God. What I condemn is the obvious exaggeration in Bruce's posts, as to how much time he spends studying, especially when he is on CC all the time.
I had to cut my internet time, not just CC, but my support groups I run, my support groups I go to to receive help and advice for my physical illnesses. Because after studying the Bible and Greek for maybe, and hour and a half daily, trying to keep a house clean, sleeping, playing flute about 50 minutes a day, (my church ministry along with preaching!) and work in the garden, there was simply not a spare minute left in my day. And my internet time is the morning, when I cannot move well, I read the news, and as my drugs start to work, I move to posting here and on FB. But, the Internet is simply not my priority these days, although I have come into this thread to stand against the word twisting, the exaggerations and the lies of hypergrace, particularly when I see others being seduced by a false gospel, as I was.
So please accept my apologies if you thought, along with others, I was condemning your methods of Bible study's it's the exception of listening to Internet preachers, if that was indeed part of that time. But I am questioning the actual hours spent, especially in light of life and the amount of time spent posting here at CC. Being a math brain can be a burden sometimes!
I've spent too much time online, but I am going to be coming back, I hope and continuing to confront this hypergrace gospel, which is not biblical Christianity. And sorry about the formatting, I hate it when the fonts/size and other things like boldness are locked. Nothing to do with anyone, just something I am trying to work through, when it may not be possible to teach my IPad new tricks.