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Jan 16 |
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Why isn't the cross considered an idol? @Caleb - So far, though, the other answers say basically, "It's not the same because we say it's not". The JW's say, "It is the same, because it is--look at all this scriptural support." Who gets to decide--us, or God? If the question is about the sociology of prayer around a cross, then I agree that user12646's answer is far better. But if the question is about scriptural support, then the JW's have put together a much stronger case than any answer here. I don't think the JW position is airtight, but it's silly to discount evidence just because custom is to believe something else. |
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Jan 16 |
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Jan 16 |
answered | Christianity certainty and other religions certainty |
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Jan 16 |
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Why isn't the cross considered an idol? @DJClayworth - It is indeed a minority view, but that does not make it not an answer. Sometimes the minority is correct, or at least not obviously wrong. I couldn't find a good rebuttal of the Jehovah's Witnesses position. If you know of one or can write one, feel free to answer the question yourself with better support than I referenced here. If the argument is sound, hopefully the OP will switch the accepted answer, and if not, I'm happy to delete this answer and re-post it as a comment so as not to mislead future readers. |
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Jan 15 |
answered | Why isn't the cross considered an idol? |
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Jan 15 |
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Why isn't the cross considered an idol? @MarcGravell - Could you not also argue that Exodus is prohibiting something that almost never occurs anyway (especially in modern times): the worship of that idol itself, not what the idol represents? (The wording in Leviticus is more problematic.) |
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Jan 15 |
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Are there Biblical reasons why a Christian should not believe that Global Warming is happening @DavidStratton - Wait, what? Acid rain was a problem in the 70s and 80s, and regulations passed in the 80s and 90s helped to limit the damage. If the 80s "hype" over acid rain is your model, you should believe that global warming is real and man-made, but that the scare-stories told about it are overblown (but the problem is still serious). |
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Jan 6 |
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Which languages did Huldrych Zwingli know? Why not check Wikipedia before asking here (especially without more context as to why this is so important): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldrych_Zwingli |
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Jan 1 |
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Sources on Historical Reliability of the New Testament @David Stratton - If one selected people who were not Christian before they started studying the event, that would fix the selection bias problem that you describe. |
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Jan 1 |
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How to define an independent interference by God? This answer is very interesting, but it also contains major conceptual flaws: providence can in principle be tested for statistically, so the "it's real to them" and "it could be coincidence" points are missing the major point when it comes to detecting divine interference; miracles are not clearly distinguished from providence at least in the recently-occurring examples (spontaneous remission of cancer is known at some rate, and not only among Christians, and examples of, say, regenerating a lost limb are not found). |
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Nov 11 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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Nov 8 |
accepted | Honor and solidarity |
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Nov 2 |
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Honor and solidarity Thanks, that helps clarify; in cases of disputes, if you truly love your enemies, you wouldn't (presumably) favor your relatives. |
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Nov 2 |
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Honor and solidarity But is not 2 Corinthians 6:14 solidarity--"Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?"? And is not Matthew 15:4-6 advocating honorable solidarity w.r.t parents--"For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.' But you say, 'If anyone tells his father or his mother, "What you would have gained from me is given to God,"he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God."? |
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Nov 2 |
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asked | Honor and solidarity |
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Oct 31 |
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Where did viruses come from, according to Young Earth Creationists? Okay, but horizontal gene transfer among multicellular organisms is so rare that it wasn't even detected until a few years ago. One can postulate, without evidence, huge numbers of changes that could eventually make things sound plausible (e.g. viruses that can repeatedly infect germline tissues across a wide range of species and cause no sterility and (on and on and on)). If this is the best answer out there--and for all I know it could be--it's worth noting that it's very speculative (to be charitable). |
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Oct 31 |
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Where did viruses come from, according to Young Earth Creationists? @Waggers - I agree in principle, but the examples weren't of something that would be useful in an unfallen context. Infection by herpes makes you less likely to die of plague? Interesting...but it leaves the "original intended nature" conjecture unsupported (unless the original intended nature was that they would play a role after the fall). |
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Oct 31 |
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Where did viruses come from, according to Young Earth Creationists? The "health benefits" in that blog post are both being less subject to some other disease. I thought that pre-Fall, there was no disease. So this doesn't give much insight into original intended nature, does it? |
