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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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Mar 21	comment	Why were the Israelites not circumcised in the desert? Cross posted here on Judaism.SE.
Mar 20	comment	Where did the “We are the pure and chosen few / And all the rest are damned” nursery rhyme originate? People, both Christians and not, say all sorts of stuff using Christian themes. The doesn't make hunting down nursery rhymes on topic here. Did you have a question about Baptist theology? Even your source article doesn't claim this originates from Baptists themselves.
Mar 20	comment	Does any faith dogmatically assert time-travel? Mike I think this got started on the wrong foot. It reads more like a rant against Catholicism than an inquiry into other doctrine. I think you should finish your research into what the Catholic doctrine actually is before branding it "time travel" with the physics implications that has. As it stands, this is likely to cause never-ending confusion and discussion on the pat of both Catholics and everybody else. First ask some questions that define terms, then ask about some doctrinal terms like `(con\|tran)substantiation` rather than `time travel`.
Mar 17	comment	Is Christ's blood enough? A similar (but definitely not the same) question was asked here you might find interesting: How is Christ's death so significant?
Mar 15	comment	Can dogma ever be modified, and how does this relate to papal infallibility? Welcome to Christianity.SE! I tweaked your question a little to have a more descriptive title. I was originally thinking about having you split this up into to separate questions, but it's possible that these are closely enough related that they can easily be answered together. If a Catholic comes along and suggests it would be easier to deal with these issues separately, maybe we can take their advice then. In the mean time, I hope you get some good answers!
Mar 15	comment	What is the difference between Calvinist “nature” and “nature” in the sense of the Hypostatic union? I'm pretty sure the answer to this is some form of "no", that having two natures is quite different than having two wills, (which is different again from hypostasis) but this could use a clear well referenced response showing what the differences are...
Mar 15	comment	Can people in Heaven communicate with each other? @Narnian: I've started an answer using Revelation but I keep getting distracted. I think you've nailed in there and these other verses are, indeed, not that relevant.
Mar 15	comment	Can people in Heaven communicate with each other? Using parables for anything other than their intended purpose is pretty dubious exegesis. One can't hang theological details on parables if the purpose of the parable was not to illustrate that detail. This parable doesn't seem to be meant to say anything about the nature of existence in heaven, so much as it illustrates the importance of heeding God's word in this life so that we are not permanently cut off from him in the next. You could use this to illustrate the separation between heaven and hell, but this would not even work to prove communication between the two, much less inside of one.
Mar 14	comment	What does “amen” mean? Except for the capital T part (which even the Catechism doesn't bear you out on), my dictionary says that. So does google. So does wikipedia. Of course there are advantages to asking here rather than a dictionary, but usually strength of what makes us more like an encyclopedia instead of a dictionary is our ability to delineate perspectives rather than using lowest common denominators.
Mar 14	comment	What does “amen” mean? That question is a polar opposite from this one. Just because they both use "what does x mean" format in the title doesn't make them equivalent. In '11 we hadn't figured out yet what was a constructive question format, but if anything that one errs on the side of being too broad, having too many differences between traditions to simply answer as a truth question. It's an incredibly involved and disputed point. On the other hand the meaning of amen is (as you note) so simple it's hardly interesting, and so common and unified in Christianity that even those outside of it automatically just know.
Mar 14	comment	What does “amen” mean? The hover tooltip for down-voting questions says "This question does not show any research effort [...] or is not useful". There could be an interesting question here about the origin of the word or perhaps variations in usage over time/between traditions, but just asking for a word definition (of something most even non Christians just know and isn't confusing or controversial) isn't something I think makes a very useful question.
Mar 14	comment	Can a married person be elected as the Pope? Yes there was some "funny stuff" because the OP requested that other question get deleted, and I salvaged the answers by merging the question into this one rather than straight up deleting them. You may leave this if you think it answers the current question, revise it to be applicable here, or delete it (which is what was going to happen).
Mar 13	comment	Why didn't Adam and Eve die when they ate the fruit? Your second paragraph is also all scrambled up. Did you mean "translators" or "authors". The translators in this case are problematic, the issue is what the authors meant when they said something equivalent to "that day" in the original. The NIV has omitted the detail, presumably because they didn't think it was important to interpreting the text. Their translation choice doesn't imply that "there must be another explanation", only that THEY might have had something else in mind.
Mar 13	comment	Why didn't Adam and Eve die when they ate the fruit? An answer is not the place to suggest a different place to ask, that would be time to VTC and comment. As for whether my take on this is interpretive: of course it is. So is this answer. The difference is that one the interpretation I'm giving you is much more representative of Christian interpretation and fits with the rest of scripture in a way that this does not.
Mar 13	comment	Why didn't Adam and Eve die when they ate the fruit? This answer is misleading. That the NIV doesn't make this implication is actually a FAULT in the translation. The answer is that they did die that day, just like the text says (and NIV fails to make clear). Your opinion is not representative of generic Christian doctrine on this issue.
Mar 13	comment	What does Matthew 13:11-12 mean? @DJClayworth I suspect this user is expecting something in the latest stages of exegesis, more towards application than resolution of a textual issue. I don't see a question here specific enough to be a productive starting point for BH to dig into.
Mar 13	comment	Is modern technology part of the Divine Intention? I think this needs some refinement before opening. Just tacking a call for listing denominations for and against a vague issue doesn't magically make it fit the format. I don't think the denomination thing is going to be helpful here at all actually. If this works in any way, you need to find a way to make it a concrete question about ... you've got like 5 different things going on here. Any one of them might work, but all together this feels like more of a group discussion starter than a SE question.
Mar 13	comment	What is the reason for the absence of the Cross as a symbol in the LDS Church? Welcome to Christianity.SE. Thanks for taking the time to provide your knowledge on the subject. I've gone ahead and linked your book. Since this post actually answers the question and that is just a place for further reading, I don't think we have an issue with a little promotion on the side. Hope to see you around, we have a lot of lds questions around here!
Mar 9	comment	How long can a conclave last? I heard the update should be out in 6-8 weeks.
Mar 9	comment	Who is a Christian according to the Russian Orthodox Church Welcome! Great job with your first question. I would echo agreement with David, however, that the original version was a better question. The speculation about answers draws it out unnecessarily. This is supposed to be a place where experts in the subject will answer and they should be able to give you an answer without it being a multiple-choice question. If you do have an answer in mind, please do consider answering yourself. Otherwise I would suggest just editing out that whole bit and waiting...