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Good to see you join Ted.

But the Bible isn't consistent on the issue.

The Old Testament isn't terribly interested in the afterlife, but everyone dies and... that's it. Except for the book of Daniel, which has many people resurrected for life or punishment.

Other good O.T. resurrection passages:

“So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.  For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.”
Job 14:12, 19:25

“He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces.”
Isaiah 25:8

“Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.”
Isaiah 26:19

“For You will not abandon my soul to [the grave]; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.”
Psalm 16:10

“As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.”
Psalms 17:15

“All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.”
Psalms 22:29

“With a long life I will satisfy him And let him see My salvation.”
Psalms 91:16

“Shall I ransom them from the power of [the grave]? Shall I redeem them from death? O Death, where are your thorns? O [grave], where is your sting?”
Hosea 13:14[\i]

Very thoughtful of you to stand this up Tim.

I tried for a few weeks to reach or contact any of the old BF staff to see what happened, but anyone I ran into had no idea what happened.

I can share some light, from a member of the mod-staff, of what didn’t happen.

It was not a planned closure.

After a very rough year of being hacked and losing super-admin access to the site, and fighting a massive porn-bot attack, we were able to get restored several months ago; however the admin access was never fully fixed, and we while the new safeguards stopped the porn-bots, it was still shaky waters without any of our functional mod-staff having full vbulletin or server access. 

There was discussion by the staff about the owner Brent (disabled-inactive)’s son Jonathan turning over all access but it had not occurred by the time of the blackout.  There had also been discussion on whether to sunset the site or continue, and the remaining staff planned to continue.

There was a worry about Web77 sunsetting in March, also bringing us down, but we were told the sight was not hosted via Web77 anymore, and shouldn’t be effected.  I believe we surpassed the Web77 shutdown by a few weeks, so it seems that wasn’t the reason.

At this point, that is all I know. 

So maybe it will benefit some of the old members who drop in, and wonder what happened.  Basically the mod-staff was just as surprised as to what happened as the regular membership.