Thread:Christian Sirolli/@comment-5175866-20170121020519

Now you may think based on the title I am questioning the intention of the testament icon templates, but this is not the case. Rather, I am questioning your intention and idea of the implementation of the templates. I think your understanding of how they should be used are different than what not I intended, but what it should be (SouthWriter is in agreeance on this).

The testament icons should only be used to indicate when something's account is in the respective testament. For example, on Bathsheba you listed (though I changed this) as appearing in both the Old and the New Testament. She only actually appears (as in the actual historical account that gives the information) in the Old Testament. She is only indirectly implied a few times (maybe just once in the New Testament).

The same could be said about David. David's actual account and Earthly prescence in the biblical timeline is only found in the Old Testament. David is referenced extentsively in the New Testament and there is even "new" information (commentary from people like Paul explaining things in connection to Christ- though this is not something new that happened to David, rather a specific revelation. These things may be able to understood without the New Testament explaining them, provided we have an understanding of Jesus found in the Gospels) about him that we find. However the New Testament's documentation of David is not creating or adding additional historical accounts.

The intention of the icons was not to suggest literary acknowledgement, but chronological/era existence (they are found in the "Old Testament" as in OT timeframe). Could you cleanup and fix this on articles that you have done this on?

In Christ, Superdadsuper, Bible Wiki Administrator & Bureaucrat 