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Antiochian Orthodox Christian, Computer Programmer and all around geek.

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Oct 1	answered	The Last Judgement: a civilized trial or a barbaric ordeal?
Oct 1	answered	Did the early Church Fathers have a complete agreement on how to interpret 1 Peter 3:18-20?
Oct 1	answered	Are Christians supposed to suffer?
Oct 1	answered	What is the origin of a stole?
Oct 1	comment	What is the origin of a stole? I also see that there are different kinds of 'stole' - orthodoxwiki.org/Stole <- you're referring to this, right? It's a Roman style orarion, essentially. So the style is Roman aristocratic, but the essential garment is the 'orarion' or 'epitrachelion' - priestly neck garments that are probably older than history.
Oct 1	comment	What is the origin of a stole? In Orthodox tradition, the Stole has particular vesting prayers associated with it, short psalm verses referencing the beard of Aaron. The style may derive from Roman aristocracy, but that doesn't make it 'nonpoor' clothing.
Sep 12	comment	Historicity of which Biblical characters is recognized by Archaeology/History? The Greek Septuagint is significantly different than the Hebrew Masoretic.
Aug 31	awarded	Yearling
Jun 20	awarded	Nice Answer
Jun 20	comment	Did all disciples of Christ's apostles consider priesthood a sacrament? Given the universality of the priest as a figure in human existence - one may be confused about the nature of Christian priesthood. We have priests ironically (from the Orthodox perspective) but this can only be understood if you understand the liturgy. The laity are by consequence not individually priests - as not all are deacons, prophets, etc. The priest is a priest because he offers the sacrifices, in this case, the 'un' sacrifices. Priesthood is itself universally sacramental, given that this is a constant, to argue against the point borders on absurdity.
Jun 20	comment	Did all disciples of Christ's apostles consider priesthood a sacrament? As a side note (I mentioned below) 'priesthood of all believers' does not necessarily mean that all believers are individually priests. When we use the ending 'hood' or 'head' or 'ship' (Germanic) the use is not sufficient condition to conclude individual, independent possession of that property. Would we say the 'Godhead' implies that the members are individudally Gods? No. Where does this idea of the priesthood of all believers even come from? It is simple - it comes from being members of the body of the High Priest himself. Disappointing perhaps, but logically solid.
Jun 20	comment	Did all disciples of Christ's apostles consider priesthood a sacrament? It's worth noting that the priesthood of all believers doesn't necessarily make believers individually priests - in the same way when we talk about the Godhood (Godhead) we don't mean that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are individually Gods. Instead it has to do with the sacramental nature of Christian life itself, and given that we compose the body of the High Priest himself- Christ - we are certainly part of the priesthood. But our role in it is not the same, so the 'priesthood of all believers' cannot be understood as the Aaronic priesthood, but as membership in a body.
Jun 20	comment	Did Jesus wear tefillin? It could still be considered a criticism of the practice, as for instance he criticized their practice of fasting and praying as well. It may be more proper to say that he is not criticizing the idea of Tefillin, but rather the actual practice. Whether the Pharisees were 'doing it right' and that was exactly what was wrong or if they really were doing Tefillin wrong - that I can't answer.
Jun 20	comment	How can the sun be created after day and night? @AndrewVit morning is the beginning of the light of day, and evening is the end of it. The ambiguity is intentional, it seems, but it is trying to say that light isn't the sun, but that the sun is a particular carrier of light. No clearer way to show this than to explain that light - and day and night - exist before the sun and moon.
Jun 20	comment	Historicity of which Biblical characters is recognized by Archaeology/History? Job is hard to place (for one) since there are two versions of his story and it is the oldest book in the scriptures. To understand what that means, it means that Job was in antiquity when Moses was leaving Egypt.
Jun 20	comment	What are the main differences between Reformed Protestant Biblical Theology and Covenant Theology? This discussion of grammar should go in chat guys.
Jun 20	answered	How should a Christian deal with destructive higher criticism of the Bible?
Jun 20	answered	Did Jesus wear tefillin?
Jun 20	comment	Did Jesus wear tefillin? This isn't an answer, but given that it was a Jewish practice, the Jewish Christians did it but did not require (as was generally the case) the Gentile Christians to do so. To get the Gentiles to do so would be have been regarded as Judaizing.
Jun 6	comment	Christian significance of Tolkien and CS Lewis putting “heaven” across the sea? No, the Chronicles are not inconsistent - there is no ret-conning, only further fleshing out of the image. As one who is a bit of a tale teller, there are two ways about it - one is Tolkien's, but his is not the only way. Most story tellers rely on intuition to keep the stories in check - and Lewis' intuition and imagination - though not always his rational faculty - were a finely tuned machine.