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| location | Seattle, WA | |
| age | 30 | |
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May 17 |
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Did the city of Nazareth exist in the time of Jesus? @user4167: Occam's Razor is the concept that when faced with two explanations for something, the simpler explanation is the more probable one. We have two explanations here: either the Gospel writers invented a town that did not exist, and people who lived in the area believed the story and no one noticed that there was no such place as Nazareth until thousands of years later... or the town existed and we just haven't found the evidence of it in modern days. |
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May 16 |
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Why do Mormons use the term “elder” for their missionaries? @fredsbend: The term "elder" is used in the Biblical sense, where it was also not intended to refer to age. Look at Paul writing to Timothy. He refers to him as an Elder of the Church, but also tells him "let no man despise thy youth". In other words, "don't let anyone look down on you and say you wouldn't be a good Elder because you're a young man, fresh out of high school with little of the wisdom that an 'elder' man should have." ;) |
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May 15 |
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Will God destroy the earth again? Will God destroy the world again? Just look around; it doesn't look like he'll need to! ;) |
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May 3 |
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Praise people who kill There's no reason to believe that no law had been given in Abraham's time, or even earlier than that. Why would God send a flood to wipe out a world full of sin, if they didn't know they were doing anything wrong? Why would Joseph, when tempted by Potiphar's wife, demur with a refusal to sin against God (not against Potiphar) if there was no law against it? Why would Jesus say that before the Law of Moses there were stricter rules regarding divorce, if there was no law? Simply because they have not been preserved to our day does not mean that the ante-Mosaic spiritual laws did not exist. |
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May 1 |
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Christian historicity @Narnian: That's kind of a weak question, unless you can explain away similar effects observed in practitioners of other major world religions... |
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Apr 25 |
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Why did Mormons stop practicing polygamy? @Jeezuzz: I've converted your post to a comment, as it's not actually an answer to the question. I believe the "Mormon church leader" would have been Warren Jeffs, the leader of a polygamy cult descended from a group that actually separated itself from the Mormon church long ago. The Latter-Day Saints have not practiced polygamy for well over 100 years, and when they find anyone among them practicing it today, that's considered grounds for excommunication. |
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Apr 22 |
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What is the significance of Judas's name? As @fredsbend said, it was a very common name. It's been said that in Jesus's time "Simon and Judah" were as common as "Smith and Jones" today. |
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Apr 10 |
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Does the Mormon doctrine of exaltation implicitly require acknowledging the existence of sentient extra-terrestrial life? +1 for the last point. It can be fun to speculate about cosmic questions, but in the end they don't do anything useful for our salvation, and can distract us from what's really important. Anyone studying the deeper points of LDS theology really ought to keep the warning implicit in Jacob 4:14 in mind, and remember that it can apply to anyone, not just the ancient Jews it's specifically talking about there. |
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Apr 10 |
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Does the Mormon doctrine of exaltation implicitly require acknowledging the existence of sentient extra-terrestrial life? It's worth noting that a good, concise explanation of Exaltation is very difficult to give, as it's basically the highest point of LDS doctrine, and to understand it well--beyond a brief overview that's more of a caricature than anything actually useful--requires an understanding of a lot of other doctrine first. You would get a better explanation by speaking with LDS missionaries, (who do explain Exaltation, after building up to it in a well-structured manner,) than by looking for specific answers here without laying the groundwork. "Line upon line, precept upon precept." (Isaiah 28:10) |
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Apr 10 |
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Does the Mormon doctrine of exaltation implicitly require acknowledging the existence of sentient extra-terrestrial life? "The idea of Exaltation" is actually official LDS doctrine that led to the rest, not the other way around. |
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Apr 6 |
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Do people go to heaven immediately when they die? @AffableGeek: Yeah. Isn't everyone? Do you just fall asleep and then immediately afterwards you're waking up with no awareness of time passing in between? |
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Apr 3 |
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What is the origin of praying hands folded? Hi Ned, welcome to Christianity.SE! That's a very interesting bit of research. I don't suppose you have a link to where the book would be available? If so, could you please edit it into your question? Thanks. |
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Apr 3 |
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What is the significance of shouting “Hosanna” by the people of Jerusalem? Jesus's entrance on a donkey, while it did fulfill this prophecy, was hardly a unique enough event that people "would not have missed" it. It was a common means of transportation, as well as being a standard piece of symbolism, showing a king arriving in peace, as opposed to riding on a horse (a beast of war) as a conqueror. |
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Apr 3 |
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Do people go to heaven immediately when they die? That actually doesn't sound like a contradiction to me. If Jesus now sits at the right hand of God the Father, that doesn't mean that he couldn't have been in paradise at some earlier point... |
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Apr 2 |
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Do people go to heaven immediately when they die? Wait... you're not aware of the passage of time when you sleep? |
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Apr 1 |
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What is the religion of the Midian people? One obvious pre-Aaronic reference to priesthood is Abraham's meeting with the high priest Melchizedek, from Salem, paying tithes to him and receiving bread and wine from him in a manner which may or may not have been sacramental in nature. |
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Mar 28 |
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Should Christians be against the death penalty? That's an improvement, though it would be better still if you provided a chapter and verse, and preferably a link. (You can find multiple Bible editions online at www.biblegateway.com, for example. It's commonly used for citations here.) |
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Mar 28 |
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Should Christians be against the death penalty? Hi Peter, welcome to Christianity.SE. That's a very interesting idea, but it doesn't actually represent a Christian perspective. We look for doctrinal answers to questions here, whereas yours appears to be derived more from a political and economic perspective. As such, it's off-topic for Christianity.SE. Please have a look at our FAQ (there's a link at the top) to clarify what we look for in questions and answers here. Would you mind either editing your answer to present a doctrinal perspective of some sort or deleting it? Thanks, and again welcome to our community. |
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Mar 27 |
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Are Matthew and John Paul's friend?Historically, the whole Christianity can be traced to Paul supposedly seeing a vision of Jesus. What are you talking about? If Christianity came from Paul, then where did the Christians Paul was persecuting before the vision come from? |
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Mar 17 |
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Is Christ's blood enough? I'm closing this, but feel free to edit it into a format better suited to our community standards, (please have a look at the FAQ to get up to speed on what we see as a well-asked question here,) and flag it for review by the mods, and one of us can reopen it then. :) |
