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| bio | website | pterandon.blogspot.com |
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| location | Poughkeepsie NY | |
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Experienced (enthusiast) animator in blender and povray, interested in applying skills to iphone game dev. I'm fluent in using povray's "C-like" scene description language to make complex projects, and have been studying Objective C tutes like mad for months.
Day job in semiconductor failure analysis.
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May 15 |
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Can the grace of God depart from a Christian? The question reminds me of a self-fulfilling trap. One could ask, "Do I have to worry about doing enough things so that I may continue to deserve salvation and not fall from grace?" If you ask that, you are trying to put your trust into a deed of your own, instead of the work of Christ on the cross. And THAT is what Gal 5:4 is warning about. |
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May 11 |
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Innocent until conception or birth? I think the moderator edit made this a more confusing question. Dan has an interesting idea here, but I think it needs much rewording. |
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May 11 |
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Why do we only pray for things that are possible to happen? Jesus says person with faith of mustard seed can ask for a mountain to be moved. The regeneration of a severed limb is probably a smaller Godly feat than that. Don't limit prayers to cases which are essentially "misdiagnoses": Doc sez he had a week to live, we prayed, and he's still alive 2 years later! |
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May 8 |
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How will Jesus be recognized at the time of “Second Coming”? Some TV preacher ages ago dutifully warned us to look out for the guy with the sword, not the bow. If that's Scriptural, can you add this verse to your extensive reply? |
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May 7 |
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Does the Bible give us any indication of why God created such a vast universe with so much stuff in it? I'm referring to the apologetic value of a large universe in demonstrating God's providence, that there would have been plenty of room for humanity to keep expanding. |
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May 6 |
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Will Jesus reveal himeself to anyone with the name “Isa” As the question asks for an interpretation, within Christianity, of a vision that was alleged to have happened, I think it's a good question. Even if I did get tripped up with the dangling modifier in the subject line wording. If you are an "expert" in Christian doctrine, it could seem an insidious question, but the "how could" line implies the questioner finds the event dubious as well. |
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May 6 |
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Are people who “think a lot about” God, Jesus, right and wrong more likely to go to heaven? Yes. My evidence would be "faith cometh by hearing." The more you hear these things in your head, the greater the chance of it taking root. |
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May 5 |
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What does the curse on the serpent mean? The Wikipedia article on the passage confirms that this is a common Christian interpretation of the passage. Christ isn't mere or catch-all enmity, but enmity between sepent's seed and woman's seed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_of_the_woman |
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May 4 |
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Where can I find out more about other people rising from the dead, when Jesus died on the Cross? Dead walking might be "high-key" enough to start a religion. One historical document (Matt 27) shows an instance of multiple cases, and multiple documents (rest of NT) show many other cases. |
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May 3 |
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How is Samson a witness for the Lord? One of my pastor's recent sermons said that Samson's later actions appeared to be motivated by revenge, and therefore was a negative example. |
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May 3 |
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Is every lie a sin? Not answering would clearly violate "let your yes be yes and your no be no." Your answer seems to imply it's okay to deceive by inaction as long as you don't actively tell a mistruth. I think there's a wrong premise here: any choice that may seem the most beneficial to most people cannot be a sin. I OTOH believe our choices are more likely to be between choices that involve committing two sins vs. four or five sins. |
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May 3 |
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Are the early followers of Christ considered Christians or Jews in today's context? If not, when was the religion created? I believe your question is based on a false premise. There was a multi-ethnic movement referred to in the book of Acts as "The Way." Thus it's not true that believers would be considered Jews, if Saul of Tarsus would have any say in the matter. Secondly, even if some disciples didn't get Jesus' divinity right away, some did ("My Lord and my God"), and bible clearly teaches such (John 1:1). Thirdly, you imply a clarification statement (325) means it's a new teaching thrust upon everyone. |
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May 2 |
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Condemnation of early Christians [edited] Two problems: 1) It seems you're assuming salvific faith means passing some kind of knowledge test about Jesus' nature, rather than confidence in his being payment for sins. 2) I believe you're assuming the newly instituted creeds/confessions created a new religion that wasn't there in the disciples & Paul. "My Lord and my God" and all that. Your question could be reworded to a very fair one: what do creeds, writings of church fathers, and bible say about salvation state of the rank-and-file followers of Arminius, etc., and other leaders whose false teachings were corrected with creeds? |
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May 2 |
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What mainstream denominations (if any) hold a Young Earth Creationist view? Do the standards of this board frown upon incomplete answers-- "I know of three: X, Y, Z"? |
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May 1 |
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Could there be any possible action proving Yahweh to be cruel? The Cross is a case of God being wholly merciless to one Person (but showing infinite mercy to the rest of us). |
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May 1 |
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Condemnation of early Christians [edited] I agree it's a false premise: based on biblical texts showing folks from the disciples to Paul as understanding Jesus' divinity. If a teaching were clarified with a Creed or confession, that doesn't mean everyone taught the opposite until that date. |
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May 1 |
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Could there be any possible action proving Yahweh to be cruel? Answer: the cross |
