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Christian, dad, and programmer

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Jun 25	comment	Ruling on eating pork in Christianity as per Bible? Regarding food sacrificed to idols, Paul says (1 Co 8, NASB), "we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat." It seems the abiding principle here relates to whether in bothers our consciences. Paul talks more of this in 1 Co 10.
Jun 25	revised	Ruling on eating pork in Christianity as per Bible? added 254 characters in body
Jun 25	answered	Ruling on eating pork in Christianity as per Bible?
Jun 25	revised	Could Adam calculate the age of the earth using science? deleted 1 characters in body
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Jun 25	comment	Ruling on eating pork in Christianity as per Bible? @gpuguy, the Mosaic law is a different covenant than the one made by Jesus. Jesus made a new covenant in which the rules of the Mosaic law do not apply. The Mosaic law holds requirements for the Jews and any proselytes to Judaism. Christians are certainly not required to be Jews (see Galatians 2).
Jun 25	comment	Ruling on eating pork in Christianity as per Bible? Don't forget about Mark's editorial comment (Mk 7:19): "Thus [Jesus] declared all foods clean."
Jun 22	answered	Could Adam calculate the age of the earth using science?
Jun 22	answered	Why is Cain afraid when he is driven away from God?
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Jun 22	revised	From where did Cain get his wife? added 1 characters in body
Jun 22	comment	Was Onan really struck dead by God for masturbating? The text as much as charges Onan with a specific fault: refusing to provide an heir for his brother: "Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother." (NASB) It doesn't seem reasonable to link his error with masterbation/coitus interruptus.
Jun 22	answered	From where did Cain get his wife?
Jun 22	comment	Is masturbation a sin? @Ingo: the object of lust is not what makes it wrong. Lust itself is the sin. There's no need to confuse the simple idea being stated by requiring the text to be a legal document exhaustively listing all the conditions and exceptions (or assuming there are none if none are stated).
Jun 22	comment	Is masturbation a sin? Does "intrinsically and gravely disordered action" equal "sin"? I don't read it as such, though I'm untrained at reading the Roman Catholic Catechism (but I expect it was created so that no training would be required).
Jun 22	comment	Is masturbation a sin? Ge 38 is not about masturbation. Onan was denounced because he refused to provide an heir for his brother through his brother's widow.
Jun 22	comment	Old testament accuracy of God's Word (God Speaking continued) ... were spoken to "by the angel of the LORD" (Ge 16, 21, 22, ...) who is said to have "spoke[n]". Some instances have dialogue between God and men (Ex 32). Otherwise, it's not altogether certain if people heard God speaking.
Jun 22	comment	Old testament accuracy of God's Word God Speaking to People: Be careful not to draw too much information from silence. We certainly do not have all the writings of everyone who was a prophet, because more prophets are mentioned (Iddo, Hanani, Micaiah, ...) than we have writings for. We're never told explicitly how "the word of the LORD came" to the prophets or to other people. On occasion, the patriarchs were spoken to "by angels "
Jun 22	comment	Old testament accuracy of God's Word Transmission: The Jews had a tradition of meticulously preserving the Scriptures. This was probably not the case throughout their history, but it's doesn't seem too likely that the apostate Israelite kings would have spent much time or money copying the text of a book they cared nothing for. Those likely to actually do any copying or updating would have been very careful to preserve it.
Jun 22	comment	Old testament accuracy of God's Word Silence: There was a period of over 400 years of prophetic silence (at least, nothing written and preserved) between Malachi and the coming of Jesus. It is not unprecedented for God to treat us differently for a (long) time.