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Contents 1 Bizarre discussion 2 Sept 05 3 KJV 4 Christian Dominionism ? 5 External links removed 6 Wikilinking words from within a quoted Scripture text? 7 Categories 8 scholars of the historical Jesus 9 Matthew 24:14 10 high-start 11 Reference link?

[edit] Bizarre discussion

how did the great commision influence exploration, colonization, and the spread of free democracy?

It gave the Europeans an excuse to go around murdering the leaders of foreign lands and taking all their gold, and buy or kidnap their people to work on cotton plantations.

Unsigned comment is outside the scope of both the main article and this talk page. DFH 15:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

George Hamilton wrote an account of the voyage of HMS Pandora in which he hoped that Fletcher Christian, if not captured, might be a civilizing influence on the South Sea Islanders: "so that, at some future period, a British Ilion may blaze forth in the south with all the characteristic virtues of the English nation, and complete the great prophecy, by propagating the Christian knowledge amongst the infidels." 203.17.70.161 04:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sept 05

I made some edits which attempt to remove what looked like a POV bias to me. Hope it looks OK. Happy to discuss the edits. KHM03 12:58, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] KJV

I think that using the King James' Version is a mistake here. Its hard to read and not the version most coommonly used by Christians. NIV instead perhaps? 129.234.4.10 12:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Christian Dominionism ?

This section seems to be very POV. It should be either removed or reworded. DFH 14:54, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

I see that an article for Dominionism already exists, so it seems pointless to re-iterate a discussion about the Dominionist view of the Great Commission in this article. I therefore propose that this whole section should be removed. DFH 15:10, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Done. Refer to the main article's history to see what was removed. DFH 15:13, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links removed

I have removed all four external links, because none of them satisfied Wikpedia criteria for inclusion. DFH 15:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilinking words from within a quoted Scripture text?

I see disadvantages in wikilinking words and phrases from within a quoted Scripture passage. It gives undue emphasis, and creates a false impression that the Bible is a hypertext document. Words within Scripture quotations that require further explanation should be amplified in the main encyclopedic description paragraghs, and then linked only if necessary. DFH 15:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

I removed Category:Christian and Jewish interfaith topics, as it seems to be not of the essence of the main article. No doubt many items in Christian theology are interfaith topics of one sort or another, but it hardly seems a sufficient reason for thus categorizing this article. DFH 15:40, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] scholars of the historical Jesus

It's true that the JS doesn't represent "most scholars," but the text doesn't claim that. It's referring to scholars of the historical Jesus, most of whom don't include the resurrection in their historical reconstruction of Jesus. A few do, but the text says "generally." Jonathan Tweet 01:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Matthew 24:14

This seems to be another relevant Scriptural reference. 203.17.70.161 04:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] high-start

This is a high-importance, start-class article, and I'm willing to do some work to get it moving. Jonathan Tweet 17:04, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I described the great commissions that appear in the five books cited. It's a start. Jonathan Tweet 20:41, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reference link?

I'm trying to add reference 1, but it won't link to anything. I copy-pasted the reference from somewhere else on Wiki that uses the same source (different page #s), but it won't work over here. Perhaps someone can fix it? ThanksEsdraelon 00:01, 29 October 2007 (UTC)