User talk:Rob Fergus

Hi Rob,

I noticed a couple of your posts on talk pages that you hadn't signed. No big deal if you forgot (I forget all the time) but I just wanted to make sure you knew about the easy way to sign your posts. There is a really easy way. You can click the button on the row of buttons above the edit window that is second from the right. It looks like a part of someone's signature. When you click that button it will insert the following characters --~~~~ whereever your cursor is in the edit box. When you click "save page" wikimedia will automatically conver these characters into your signature with a date and time stamp.--Matthew Faulconer 11:07, 29 Apr 2005 (CEST)

Thanks Matt, just learned this trick yesterday!--Rob Fergus 23:26, 29 Apr 2005 (CEST)

Question on Gen 17:1

Hi Rob, I found the question on Gen 17:1 very interesting. I am interested in hearing your thoughts on this question. Would you be willing to answer the question in the exegesis section? --Matthew Faulconer 16:01, 10 May 2005 (CEST)

Matt, Not sure if I can answer this question yet, it really is a question for me. I see that the same word translated as "perfect" here (HEB Tamiym) is also used all the time to mean "without blemish" in Leviticus and Numbers. Need to do more thinking about this one, but I was thinking of it in light of Margaret Barker's comments on Christ restoring the Enochian and Abrahamic order of Melchizedek (in her talk at the Worlds of Joseph Smith symposia this past weekend at the Library of Congress). That got me to go back to Genesis and when I saw this injunction to be perfect there, it just made me start wondering about all this.

Barker suggests that the Mosaic traditions come in late and supercede earlier temple worship, along with Aaronic priests gaining control and driving out priests after the order of Melchizedek during the reforms of King Josiah. If so, much of our Bible was constructed during a time of apostacy, with later interpolations masking earlier forms of worship. Somewhat speculative, but makes me appreciate how much Joseph Smith may have restored--even more than we thought was originally lost. We've got a long way to go to figure out how much of the Bible is 'translated correctly' and how much are messed up. If we could only get our hands on Nephi's Brass Plates, or some other copy of holy texts from c. 600BC (cf. 1 Ne 5:18)! Rob Fergus 15:10, 11 May 2005 (CEST)

Rob, are the proceedings online somewhere? Maybe they aren't now but will be? I was just wondering if you could link to Barker's comments. I'd be interested in reading. --Matthew Faulconer 15:59, 11 May 2005 (CEST)

Bird Pictures

Rob, great pictures on your blog!