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| bio | website | alerque.com |
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| location | Izmir, Turkey | |
| age | 31 | |
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I am a scripting language connoisseur, regular expression aficionado, network geek, general lover of Linux and a frequent contributor to open source software. I transitioned to programming from other work because I was too busy automating my own work environment to actually do the other work. I have a hobby interest in cartography. For more see my personal site. Most importantly, my life is defined by the grace of God given to men through Jesus Christ. It is my ambition that everything I do would reflect His glory and point people towards Him.
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Apr 16 |
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Who saved people before ~33AD? This is an excellent entry delving into the truth of the matter (and a good match for the original version of the question), but it doesn't touch on the specifics of the question such as historical doctrines or different views held by different traditions (and thus not a great match for the current version). |
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Apr 16 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Apr 16 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Apr 15 |
accepted | On what basis did Mary Queen of Scots first reject the Scots Confession? |
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Apr 15 |
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On what basis did Mary Queen of Scots first reject the Scots Confession? This is a beautiful answer! Thanks for the history lesson and some starting places for further reading. |
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What is the basis of the view that Jesus was separated from the Father and Holy Spirit upon death? edited tags |
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Apr 15 |
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What is the basis of the view that Jesus was separated from the Father and Holy Spirit upon death? @svidgen The phrasing thing you are hung up on is just as problematic if you drop the issue of death and separation altogether and look at other statements made about Jesus. "God made him to be sin". How does that square with God being sinless? The details of how it worked are kind of beyond us and the Bible isn't very explicit, but Christianity is fairly broadly in agreement that Jesus in some very real way experienced something outside the normal state of affairs -- else he accomplished nothing at all. God cannot sin, yet Jesus became our unrighteousness! |
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Apr 15 |
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What is the basis of the view that Jesus was separated from the Father and Holy Spirit upon death? @svidgen: I did a lot more than semi-half-think putting that answer together! I deliberately chose words to convey the seriousness of what was going on without using language that any major tradition could lodge a doctrinal complaint with. I linked to the definition of death because it was theologically significant, but I specifically said "experienced" in such away that it did not introduce potential logical contradictions and did not get into details about the Trinity because it wasn't significant to the question and couldn't be done without making the answering disagreeable to somebody. |
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Apr 15 |
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How is Christ's death so significant? @svidgen: There is actually already a link in this answer to a question on that subject that has an answer from me about that view. It's not a personal view. In fact any other view doesn't show up as a major force in Christian history until the year I was born. Which wasn't so very long ago in the grand scheme of things. I don't have time or energy to answer the question you linked to because it's loaded down with all kinds of baggage and would take quite a lot of sorting out just to start saying anything useful. |
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Apr 15 |
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How should Selah be read? How would you feel about migrating this question to Biblical Hermeneutics? There are probably two aspects to this: one is the original Hebrew usage to which the Jewish expertise on that site might be able to speak to better. The other is how it is/can be used in contemporary Christian worship. If you really want to focus on the latter we can certainly keep it here, but we should probably tweak the question a little to focus less on the "truth" of the matter and more on gathering information on how Christianity handles this. |
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Apr 15 |
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On what basis did Mary Queen of Scots first reject the Scots Confession? added 374 characters in body |
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Apr 13 |
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Does the pope get paid for being the pope? For my next question I'll be asking which pope held office the longest and where he is buried. Come to thing of it, maybe I should use a pseudonym for that one... |
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Apr 13 |
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Did Jesus know how to read and write? @Alypius I wasn't wondering. The first version was pretty weak sauce -- a very poor argument made for something that could have been a strong clear cut case instead but missed the important facts leaving the argument hinging on speculation quite unnecessarily. The next set of revisions introduced factual errors that made it actually plain wrong. I hope the issues are fixed now, but although I finally think it is a passable answer, it's late to the party and doesn't really add that much. It deserved the early reception it got which is why I was here fixing it. |
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Apr 13 |
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On what basis do Christians sometimes claim to know what God's intentions are? Anybody else think a few tweaks might actually make this a constructive question? I think Karl's answer set the stage that there is a sound doctrinal issue to be asked about here. Can we fix the question to ask about that and possibly re-open it? |
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Apr 13 |
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On what basis do Christians sometimes claim to know what God's intentions are? edited title |
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Apr 13 |
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How can one judge how accurate a given Bible translation is? added 238 characters in body |
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Apr 13 |
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How can one judge how accurate a given Bible translation is? The Message is available in full OT/NT versions now. |
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Apr 13 |
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Did Jesus know how to read and write? added 582 characters in body |
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Apr 13 |
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Did Jesus know how to read and write? added 582 characters in body |
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Apr 13 |
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What doctrinal changes did the Westminster Confession bring to the Church of Scotland? edited tags |
