Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-33875200-20200323152739/@comment-5175866-20200323162453

I will try to keep my response as brief as possible while fully answering your complaint.

This wiki and affiliated projects (like our blog )operate as a ministry, with some basic underlying assumptions- among them that the Bible is God-inspired. We take a "biblical point of view " of our articles, not focusing on scholarly criticism of the text as much of the content of the Bible in it self. This does not mean we never talk about any scholarly or critical material, in fact I believe that is something this wiki needs to do more of-but this wiki is not for sharing many different scholarly opinions. For the most part, this focus on what the Bible says about itself does directly influence most articles. For most articles about biblical people, persons, places we do not question if what the biblical text was true- we simply present that information (and its up to the reader if they argee with that or not) to make clear what the bible says about itself. The Bible article is an exception and admittedly difficult to do.

We are not Wikipedia. If you are looking for a "neutral" site that includes all the scholarly opinions and criticisms of the historical validity of the text than Wikipedia is the place to go. If we did that here, that would be "reinventing the wheel"- Wikipedia already has excellent coverage of biblical topics in that regard. This isn't out of ignoring historical criticism, but removing "confusion from inclusion"- haing a wiki encyclopedia where the content of the Bible can be presented without having to be all inclusive of every point of view. If we implemented your ideas we would be somewhat to redundant as to Wikipedia's own articles.

As I said, the Bible article itself is an especially difficult one since you have to go outside of the Bible to determine what it is. In an article about David we may not include every opinion about whether or not David was a historical figure- whether or not he was is irrelevant to article content, we simply describe David as found in the biblical content.

We do define the Bible as the 66 books found in "Protestant canon". While this is a faith statement, there are many legitimate historical and textual precedents as to why we do not consider the apocrypha as part of our articles. A misconception about faith is that it is blind- the Greek word for faith (pistis πιστις) comes from the Greek word peitho πειτθω which means "I persuade". Faith is what cannot be seen (Heb 11:1, 2 Cor 4:18, Rom 8:24), but it is based upon a reasonable conviction or persuasion of historical and logical truths concerning supernatural realities. I will have to refer you to other sites (and many other good ones if you want even more detail)

We allow anyone regardless if they agree with our belief statement to write articles on the wiki. However, all articles must be in compliance with our faith statement and with the scope of the wiki as I described earlier. I hope I was able to make the scope and intention of the wiki clear.

Rest assured, while this wiki operates out of a faith commitment to the Bible and has a very specific scope- we do not operate out of ignorance. There is much legitimate scholarship concerning the Bible, even from non-believers. I myself am studying to be something akin to a professional bible scholar. However, we don't want to make the content of the articles a place for the battleground of the Bible's validity. We simply present the content of the Bible with clarity, considering plausible interprations (when necessary) to the content of the text itself and leave any faith understanding up to the reader.

In Christ, Superdadsuper, Sr. Content and Community Manager (Bible Wiki) 16:24, March 23, 2020 (UTC)