u/Healthy-Yak9417

Nearly a decade ago, as I was digging into theology, I started building a list of *distinct Christian beliefs (trying to avoid overlap as much as possible) in a Google Doc.

I wanted to figure out what I hadn’t really thought through yet and have better, more focused, discussions with others.

I ended up building a free site from this "BeliefTrack" and I now I add to the list from peoples feedback. It's hard to come up with allll these on your own. 😄

What’s a specific belief you think should be on the list?

If I don’t already have it (or a closely tied one), I’ll add it.

For context, I format them as clear agree/disagree statements, like:

• Hell is eternal conscious torment.
• Christians will or have already gone through the great tribulation.
• Scripture alone is the highest authority in the Christian life.
• The Pope can speak infallibly on faith and morals.

Curious what y’all would add. Just throw them at me! Feel free to give a really deep belief. My goal is to have something for both new believers and those well versed in theology.

I've been working on a Christian platform for over a year now. I had a private-alpha, public-alpha, beta and full release stages and my goals for each phase.

Per my plan I "prematurely" moved from beta to full release because of user feedback.

I feel like I shot myself in the foot by having an alpha & beta. The site is stable and it has been for a while. BUT I just kept thinking I wanted more feedback from my premium users to really feel good about calling it a full release.

After hearing and noticing some rumblings I believe I have picked up on an undercurrent of thinking that people have when they see something is in "beta".

What people see is "Oh it's not ready to use yet".

I spoke with a recent user who was recommended the site from a pastor and the way they told me it was recommended was that it's "early and still working on stuff". Which I understood that to mean, they aren't using it because it's not ready for prime time yet.

So.... I spent my morning removing all "beta" branding and rebranded my "roadmap" such that it doesn't look like the site is still a "work in progress". Because in all reality I was the only one standing in the way of doing the "full release".

Lesson learned. The alpha stage was warranted, I got real users to use my site and it didn't crash. I got some feedback and have been working on the features/updates. I should have started with "beta" and then did a full release. I believe I'd have had higher retention with my existing users if that was the case.

BUT, let's see how it goes now... FYI BeliefTrack

I've been working on a Christian platform for over a year now. I had a private-alpha, public-alpha, beta and full release stages and my goals for each phase.

Per my plan I "prematurely" moved from beta to full release because of user feedback.

I feel like I shot myself in the foot by having an alpha & beta. The site is stable and it has been for a while. BUT I just kept thinking I wanted more feedback from my premium users to really feel good about calling it a full release.

After hearing and noticing some rumblings I believe I have picked up on an undercurrent of thinking that people have when they see something is in "beta".

What people see is "Oh it's not ready to use yet".

I spoke with a recent user who was recommended the site from a pastor and the way they told me it was recommended was that it's "early and still working on stuff". Which I understood that to mean, they aren't using it because it's not ready for prime time yet.

So.... I spent my morning removing all "beta" branding and rebranded my "roadmap" such that it doesn't look like the site is still a "work in progress". Because in all reality I was the only one standing in the way of doing the "full release".

Lesson learned. The alpha stage was warranted, I got real users to use my site and it didn't crash. I got some feedback and have been working on the features/updates. I should have started with "beta" and then did a full release. I believe I'd have had higher retention with my existing users if that was the case.

BUT, let's see how it goes now... FYI BeliefTrack

I've been working on a Christian platform for over a year now. I had a private-alpha, public-alpha, beta and full release stages and my goals for each phase.

Per my plan I "prematurely" moved from beta to full release because of user feedback.

I feel like I shot myself in the foot by having an alpha & beta. The site is stable and it has been for a while. BUT I just kept thinking I wanted more feedback from my premium users to really feel good about calling it a full release.

After hearing and noticing some rumblings I believe I have picked up on an undercurrent of thinking that people have when they see something is in "beta".

What people see is "Oh it's not ready to use yet".

I spoke with a recent user who was recommended the site from a pastor and the way they told me it was recommended was that it's "early and still working on stuff". Which I understood that to mean, they aren't using it because it's not ready for prime time yet.

So.... I spent my morning removing all "beta" branding and rebranded my "roadmap" such that it doesn't look like the site is still a "work in progress". Because in all reality I was the only one standing in the way of doing the "full release".

Lesson learned. The alpha stage was warranted, I got real users to use my site and it didn't crash. I got some feedback and have been working on the features/updates. I should have started with "beta" and then did a full release. I believe I'd have had higher retention with my existing users if that was the case.

BUT, let's see how it goes now... FYI BeliefTrack

So my son asks a lot of great questions and is observant.

This morning he kept digging in on Trinity questions, my wife and I found it funny because he was rightly touching on the parts that can be understood but not fully comprehended.

Like us saying Jesus is God AND He’s the Son of God. Then he’s like oh so there’s two gods? To which we said no, 1 God but 3 persons of God. Yes it’s hard to understand but you’ll understand later.

He asked more clarifying questions, which we answered, but without committing a heresy like modalism or partialism what kind of answers would yall give to help my kids better understand?

So my son asks a lot of great questions and is observant.

This morning he kept digging in on Trinity questions, my wife and I found it funny because he was rightly touching on the parts that can be understood but not fully comprehended.

Like us saying Jesus is God AND He’s the Son of God. Then he’s like oh so there’s two gods? To which we said no, 1 God but 3 persons of God. Yes it’s hard to understand but you’ll understand later.

He asked more clarifying questions, which we answered, but without committing a heresy like modalism or partialism what kind of answers would yall give to help my kids better understand?