Robert Harvey

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Feb 20	awarded	Yearling
Dec 20	awarded	Critic
Dec 20	comment	Why are Mormon Temples Ceremonies kept secret from non-Mormons? @MasonWheeler: Merely pointing out the obvious straw man.
Dec 20	comment	Why are Mormon Temples Ceremonies kept secret from non-Mormons? How do you know there weren't? Anyway, it doesn't matter to the Mormons. Their reasons probably have nothing to do with the reasons of others, nor does it matter to them whether or not anyone else keeps secrets. Someone has to be the first to keep secrets, after all.
Dec 20	comment	Why are Mormon Temples Ceremonies kept secret from non-Mormons? No, because they've been kept secret.
Dec 20	comment	Why are Mormon Temples Ceremonies kept secret from non-Mormons? `nothing else in Christian history was kept secret` -- How would you know that?
Dec 6	comment	To Arians and Jehovah's Witnesses: Does your theology admit that God was at one point ἄλογος? Perhaps. But I think it more likely that you've created an elaborate logical framework for something that is most likely self-evident to the JW's, and have couched your question in a way that is unlikely to be challenged, since it is clearly evident that you have the logical chops to pummel anyone who disagrees. Although no one has explicitly stated it yet, your question could be interpreted as an attempt to engage in debate over what is arguably a legalistic, literal interpretation of the theology. See also meta.islam.stackexchange.com/questions/275
Oct 3	comment	How should a Christian respond to “Does this dress me look fat?”? Any answer that unequivocally states that lying is wrong under all circumstances fails to take into account things like privacy and needed secrecy (military secrets, for example). It only takes one example to prove the opposite, and if I dug hard enough, I'm sure I'd find a passage in the Bible that supports this.
Jan 13	revised	“How do I get more faith?” - how to understand Jesus' answer? added 9 characters in body
Jan 13	awarded	Teacher
Jan 13	revised	“How do I get more faith?” - how to understand Jesus' answer? added 497 characters in body
Jan 13	comment	“How do I get more faith?” - how to understand Jesus' answer? I knew you were going to say that. :) My original comment is neither authoritative, nor absolute; it is simply the way I read the Biblical passage. I see faith, not as an act, but as an attitude, an understanding and acceptance that things will work out as they should.
Jan 13	answered	“How do I get more faith?” - how to understand Jesus' answer?
Dec 28	comment	Why does Jesus not want people to repent and be forgiven in Mark 4? It wouldn't surprise me in the least. I'm not a Biblical scholar, and so don't feel like I could answer the question in a scholarly way, but I have noticed that some Christian intellectuals seem to make these things more difficult than they actually are.
Dec 27	awarded	Commentator
Dec 27	comment	“How do I get more faith?” - how to understand Jesus' answer? [Not sure if sarcastic, or being serious]
Dec 27	comment	“How do I get more faith?” - how to understand Jesus' answer? Jesus was saying to the apostles that they didn't need more faith.
Dec 27	comment	Why does Jesus not want people to repent and be forgiven in Mark 4? It seems clear to me that Jesus is not saying here that he's deliberately misleading his students. Rather, that some will not understand his teachings (at first), and that only those who understand (or subsequently gain understanding) are capable of repenting.
Dec 21	comment	Are the names of all people originally written in the Book of Life? @GilbertLeBlanc: That sounds like the illusion of free will, not free will itself.
Nov 4	comment	Are the names of all people originally written in the Book of Life? @GilbertLeBlanc: How depressing that viewpoint is; we don't have free will at all. Our actions, from the beginning of our life to the end, have already been mapped out for us in excruciating detail.