With in the past ten days there his been a disturbing increase of erroneous quotes posted to this forum ... all of which have been posted WITHOUT the benefit of the quotation function. The following are representative of this growing forum problem
Jay. has called another participant here "condescending and impudent" (even though he says he is "ignoring" that participant's remarks). Jay.'s insults stand. Link to Locked Thread
Rev Austin was promptly notified of his error less than an hour later
No, that was not Jay: Link to Locked Thread
followed by the source of the misquoted words. Later the same day ... the error was addressed yet again
Still awaiting an apology and full retraction of your blatant error!
Maybe you will now try to use the quote function which would have prevented this error! Link to Locked Thread
To date, the source of this erroneous post has acknowledged his error in the following manner
If those words were not directly used by Jay., ... then perhaps they were mis-attributed. ... I don't care. ... I will not apologize for that, for I believe it to be true.
A few days later a second misquote was brought to the attention of the forum ... made in spite of the "make over" that included a different avatar ... and again without the use of the quote function
Charles,
Please take another look at the post you are responding to in your post above. It was not posted by Pastor Weedon.
Mel Harris
Meekly the following response followed within the half hour
Thank you. I have fixed my post and hope that it did not embarrass Pastor Weedon. My questions, then, were to NCLutheran, the one who bears a most dignified surname.
Nonethless, cheers,
CMA
which included an edit of the errant post indicating that the humble correspondent is capable of correcting his errors IF HE WANTS TO.
Yet again an errant quote ... again REFUSING to use the quote function .
Pastor Engebretson may not want my comments attributed to him. 
followed by a defiant non apologetically response
Sorry, Pastor Kirchner, sometimes all you LCMSers look alike. 
Not only can the humble correspondent NOT quote forum participants correctly, he miss attributes quotes of publications due to his refusal to avail himself of the quotation function
That answer is not specific enough, Pastor Engebretson. The Lutheran Witness article and the Concordia professor say that the LCMS "view" is specifically a young (several thousand years) earth view of creation. Is that true or is it not true, and if true, where has the LCMS said its official "view" is that the earth was created several thousand years ago?
BTW, the referenced article was not in the Lutheran Witness, but rather in the Reporter, the May issue. The gentleman asserting the Synod's official position defending a young earth was the Rev. Dr. Joel Heck, theology professor at Concordia University - Texas.
Note that the word "
APOLOGIZE" is never used without "
not" preceding it.
Why all this on the "The ALPB Mutual technical support thread"? Since this has become such a repetitive problem, perhaps a post citing an error should address nothing other than the error thus enabling the moderators to easily remove the error in the event that this pattern of failure to acknowledge and correct erroneous posts continues.
