The Essence of God-ongoing usenet discussion with a trinitarian.

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At 05:35 PM 2/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Check out this writing below that I posted to usenet and give
>me some input please on what could be added if you all see
>something lacking...keep in mind I tried to keep it short.:-)
>
>The Essence of God
>
>Question: What is the very essence of God?
>According to Jesus: John 4:24-God is a Spirit
>Scripturally God is:
>1)Omnipotent-All powerful
>Job 42:2-I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be
>withholden
>from thee.
>Psalm 115:3-But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever He hath
>pleased.
>2)Omnipresent-Everpresent

<snip>

I'll tell you why I wouldn't read it, it's because the formatting of
the message isn't appealing to the eye.  Because the message isn't
broken up with different indentations, blocking scripture text, etc.
To me, I'd personally not even give it a thought because those things
mentioned would make if physically difficult to absorb mentally.

Also, along those lines, if you're using a font that is *proportional*
(meaning each character's width is dependent on how skinny or how fat
the character (like the skinny "i" verses the fat "w") is in relation to
the rest) there will probably be many a people that will be reading it
using a proportional fixed-width font that'll see the proportional 
formatting as bad as well.

Change to a font that is non-proportional (like Courier-New) and set the
width of the window to 80 characters wide.  If you're using Courier-New
and your e-mail window width is 80 characters wide, then the ruler below
will span the entire width of the screen:

....:....1....:....2...:....3...:....4...:....5...:....6...:....7...:....8

Then, when you compose the document, make absolutely sure that what 
writing doesn't go beyond the end of the ruler.  Force the <cr> (carraige
returns) in at the end of the line and don't rely on the other person's
software to break the line where it needs to be.  

I personally wouldn't want to post something to a newgroup without 
changing the format of it enough to make it attractive as a tract that
could be passed out if they printed it off on a nice laser printer or
ink-jet printer.  If lines wrap, if scripture isn't blocked and indented,
if it looks like it was just thrown together like a high-schooler, I 
wouldn't post it (personally).  And if it appears as such, I wouldn't
read it either.


This is how I'd clean up what's above:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

                          THE ESSENCE OF GOD

Question:  What is the very essence of God?

Answer  :  Acording to Jesus, God is a Spirit:

  John 4:24 God is a Spirit

Scripturally God is:

   1)Omnipotent - All powerful
     
     Job 42:2 -    I know that thou canst do everything, and that 
                   no thought can be withholden from thee.

     Psalm 115:3 - But our God is in the heavens: He hath done 
                   whatsoever He hath pleased.

   2)Omnipresent - Everpresent

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

There's a big big difference in delivery between what you posted 
previously and how it's coming across immediately above.

When I approved your post for distribution, because of the *look and
feel* of it, I didn't engage my eyes on every jot and tiddle of every
word contained therein.  I skimmed it for objectionable material and
then approved it.  Had it been more appealing to my eyes, I probably
would have really enjoyed the post.

It's probably a wonderful post in content, it just needs a whole lot
of cleaning up.

Bro Tyler
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Bro Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net> <tgnally@prairienet.org>

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