With all do respect to those other board none can touch this one in quality and quantity.
I appreciate that and can only take small credit for it.
For what it's worth, I'm convinced that one of the reasons this board is as solid as it is owes to the insistence on being Confessional.
I have to become a tin horn dictator every now and again and send people away that want to insist on novelty but it's ironic how the depth of Biblical scholarship and dialogue
flourishes in an environment where people know the boundaries.
I was on vBulletin recently and a theological board was nominated for board of the month that was a board about Jesus. I checked it out and ventured into the "What is the Gospel" section. It had a post in there that was basically one of those "Love Letters from God" things. I get enough Spam about God that turns my stomach rather than having a forum that promotes it but these broad Christian discussion boards seem to have a ton of those.
It's sort of interesting, though, because some Conservative Christians venture over here because they're weary of having to debate every given (like God's aseity or His knowledge of future events) in any dialogue but then they get here and don't like that we're puncilious about other matters they consider indifferent.
We're far from perfect here but I'm happy that Confessional integrity (in the main) has created a solid environment for discussion and it is visible confirmation that good doctrine is more than some abstract good.
