Jas 3.1

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I'm a born-again Christian, active member of the body of Christ, husband and father, and Bible teacher. I love to study Scripture, and firmly believe it is the only credible standard for truth.

Aside from my devotion to God, His people, and His word, I don't really have any loyalty to a particular doctrine or creed.

(The guy in the picture is Zhuge Liang from the movie Red Cliff.)

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Jun 10	comment	How is Sabbath a metaphor of Jesus Christ? There are much clearer passages than these. Please refer to my answer to this question
Jun 10	awarded	Notable Question
Jun 3	revised	Does the Bible give us any indication of why God created such a vast universe with so much stuff in it? added 24 characters in body
Jun 3	revised	Is there a biblical reason to limit information about creation to Genesis? added 4 characters in body
Jun 2	comment	Who is Wisdom in Proverbs? Out of curiosity, why do you say that Wisdom is Jesus? (I'm just curious if I am missing something obvious.) As I studied Proverbs I leaned more toward Wisdom being the Spirit. (Though Jesus' life, of course, would be the perfect demonstration of a life by the Spirit.)
May 31	revised	Is it a valid Christian concept to attribute subjectively attactive physical characteristics, as blessings from God? added 703 characters in body
May 31	comment	Is it a valid Christian concept to attribute subjectively attactive physical characteristics, as blessings from God? @svidgen I would never claim that "beauty is not good." I didn't say that at all. I wasn't responding to a question about whether beauty was from God. I was responding to a question about whether a "more attractive" person is "more blessed" by God, and the answer is clearly "no." (We might need to take this to chat so I can better explain the difference.)
May 30	comment	Is it a valid Christian concept to attribute subjectively attactive physical characteristics, as blessings from God? @svidgen I'm not sure what we're debating here... Yes, in the Song of Solomon he delights in his wife physically and sexually. That is not the same as a woman considering another woman "more attractive", or a man considering another woman who is not his wife "more attractive", or a society rating the relative attractiveness of women. What we see in the Song of Solomon is a husband's expression of love for -- and delight in -- his wife.
May 29	comment	Is it a valid Christian concept to attribute subjectively attactive physical characteristics, as blessings from God? @svidgen Actually I do. I don't think appreciating the one God provides for you is wrong. But when we rate people's attractiveness, we're (generally) not talking about appreciating the one God provided for you.
May 29	comment	Is it a valid Christian concept to attribute subjectively attactive physical characteristics, as blessings from God? @Steve Man was not originally created to experience things like blindness. If there had been no sin, there would be no blindness, no need for redemption, and no need for Jesus to redeem blindness by healing a blind man. Thus, it is ultimately because sin entered the picture that blindness and healing entered. That is what I meant. I am not arguing that the blind man in John 9:1-3 was being punished for his sin or anything like that.
May 29	answered	Is it a valid Christian concept to attribute subjectively attactive physical characteristics, as blessings from God?
May 29	revised	Why didn't God send Jesus during Noah's time instead of The Flood? added 583 characters in body
May 27	asked	Which books of the Bible were written after the destruction of the temple?
May 26	comment	Can non-inifinite beings make logical deductions about infinite properties of God? @DavidStratton I wish I could +10 that comment.
May 23	revised	Can a physically healthy, married couple honor God without having children? deleted 28 characters in body
May 23	answered	Can a physically healthy, married couple honor God without having children?
May 22	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on If Jesus died for our sins, why is there a lake of fire?
May 21	revised	The Fig Tree of Matthew 24 and prophecy Removed bullets
May 18	comment	For Protestants who believe our dead bodies will literally be raised from the grave in the resurrection This also doesn't answer my question about age, etc. Also, will a 500 lb man be raised in his old 500 lb body? Will a body builder still look freakishly over-muscled? Or is there some idealized age, weight, build, etc. that (part of) their old atoms will be redesigned into?
May 18	revised	For Protestants who believe our dead bodies will literally be raised from the grave in the resurrection added 96 characters in body