[editor-surveyor]

"What matters is what we do with Jesus The Christ in the here and now. Are we ready to meet HIM, OR NOT?"

This is one of the big reasons why it matters. We cannot get ready to meet him without fully understanding what he has told us. The detailed information given in his word is not without purpose. He placed the information in his word because we need it desperately. Many souls drift due to this old Earth blasphemy.

[Quix]

I doubt that many folks have gotten that caught up in it all.

I believe it’s important to know what Christ taught.

It’s even more important to KNOW CHRIST PERSONALLY.

[muawiyah]

Here's the other way you have to look at it. God inspires men ~ He doesn't dictate anything.

Moslems think there's a perfect Koran in Heaven that was handed down to men. We recognize that as an heresy, so why impose that sort of standard on our Bible.

BTW, if you don't believe what I believe your chances of attaining salvation are commensurately diminished.

[Just mythoughts]

Many souls drift due to this old Earth blasphemy.

Blasphemy to whom? When was Lucifer created? When did Lucifer rebel? And remember Saul Alinsky in his Rules for Radicals gives praise to the first 'radical' rebellion. That 'fall' was the reason for why this earth looks pretty much the way we find it today. Genesis does not say anything more about the rebellion than what we find in Genesis 1:2... And busy little fingers place the verb was in Genesis 1:2 instead of 'became'. Isaiah says that God did not create this earth void and without form... it became that way. Jeremiah tells a bit about that time, as does Isaiah and Ezekiel. Peter and Paul write about that time also. So when you use the term blasphemy I would like to know who is blaspheming whom.

[Quix]

I really very rarely see any connection in the lives of most folks I know . . . with anything at all about the debate between old vs new earth perspectives.

Just does not enter their radar—and certainly has no influence on their relationship or lack of relationship with God.

I realize that all manner of nuanced inferred and extrapolated nuances can conjure, fantasize, . . .

infer and extrapolate . . .

all manner of connections and pseudo-connections between such and Salvation through Christ.

I don’t see such as being overly . . . solid and certainly not massively decisive or influential.

I kind of think it odd that anyone would.

Majoring in majors and minoring in minors is wisdom in our walk of Faith as well as in other areas of life, imho.

And IF “EVERYTHING” IS “IMPORTANT,”

THEN

functionally, NOTHING IS.