Rex Kerr

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Sep 16	comment	Mental Illness vs. Demon Possession As you wish. Pity, because you could have made an interesting argument. As it is, you just have an observation and leave us to work out how it might be related.
Sep 16	comment	Mental Illness vs. Demon Possession This is interesting, but it doesn't actually answer the question. I'm tempted to downvote because of this, but maybe you want to fix the answer so that it bears directly on whether some or all Biblical descriptions of demon possession were actually mental illness?
Sep 16	revised	Mental Illness vs. Demon Possession added 646 characters in body
Sep 16	answered	Mental Illness vs. Demon Possession
Sep 16	comment	Are scientific findings a test to Christians' Faith? @Jonathon Byrd - That is not the typical definition of "chewing cud". One can, of course, seek alternate definitions. Anyway, rock badgers (rock hyraxes, I assume) don't even do that. But if you think all the evidence is based on itself, you don't understand the evidence. Radioisotope ratios are unconnected with geological strata which are unconnected with the distance to stars and the speed of light which are unconnected with genetic diversity and allele distributions which are unconnected with the temperature of nebulae which are (etc. etc.), all of which point to a much older universe.
Sep 15	answered	Are scientific findings a test to Christians' Faith?
Sep 15	comment	What does it mean for a society to be moral? I changed it to "sub-societies" to hopefully make it clearer that I don't mean all Somalis.
Sep 15	revised	What does it mean for a society to be moral? added 6 characters in body
Sep 15	comment	What does it mean for a society to be moral? I specifically said society of Somali pirates (yes, it's a sub-society, just like Mexican drug gangs). Maybe I was unclear--do you have a better choice of wording to suggest?--but on careful reading you'll notice that I was not explicitly tarnishing the reputation of an entire society.
Sep 15	answered	What does it mean for a society to be moral?
Sep 14	answered	Is a moral society more open to the gospel than an immoral one?
Sep 13	awarded	Scholar
Sep 13	accepted	What is the doctrinal significance of repetition between the Gospels?
Sep 13	comment	Should a Christian wear clothing of mixed fibers? This answer would be improved by passages indicating that the new covenant is now in effect.
Sep 8	comment	What is the doctrinal significance of repetition between the Gospels? Good answer, but could you offer a big more detail regarding the relationship between the Deuteronomy quote and the observation that John describes many events not described in the Synoptic Gospels (and that e.g. the Sermon on the Mount appears only in Matthew). Do you suggest that we take Deuteronomy to mean that the parts in common are in some sense more fundamental or essential than the others?
Sep 8	comment	How do Christians understand the existence of God in relation to the scientific concept of energy? @AdamRedwine - The universe can have infinite matter as long as it's infinitely large (with some restrictions on how that matter is distributed). Granted, our universe doesn't look infinitely large, but an infinitely large universe with infinite matter has much less broken physics than a finite universe with infinite matter.
Sep 8	awarded	Student
Sep 8	asked	What is the doctrinal significance of repetition between the Gospels?
Sep 8	answered	How do Christians understand the existence of God in relation to the scientific concept of energy?
Sep 7	comment	Adam and Eve versus ecology Good point about the flood. Note that the perfection explanation also requires a period of hypermutation after the flood to generate all the genetic diversity observed today. It also would have had to affect different species differently, so that some species appear to have gone through population bottlenecks and others don't, and those who have appear to have done so at different times.