Jay

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Feb 25	awarded	Necromancer
Feb 8	awarded	Necromancer
Nov 28	answered	Isn't reincarnation affirmed by the Bible?
Nov 18	awarded	Quorum
Nov 4	comment	What Did God Make The Universe From? Why do you suppose this "from what" is "the most important question for Christianity"? The Bible certainly doesn't consider it the most important question, as it doesn't even directly address the question as far as I recall. The Bible does devote considerable space to such questions as the person of Jesus Christ, sin and holiness, etc. Or if you would suggest that the Bible is skimming over this issue, what difference would the answer make?
Nov 4	comment	What's the Evangelical take on the Natural Moral Law? @PeterTurner Basically, yes. I don't reject the Pythagorean Theorem, for example, just because it wasn't discovered by a Christian. I presume you believe the Theory of Gravity to be true even though it was discovered by a Protestant. :-)
Oct 31	answered	What's the Evangelical take on the Natural Moral Law?
Oct 26	comment	Are there any sects of Christianity that still practice animal sacrifice? Well, I don't claim to be any sort of expert on Santeria. You can find more than I know by searching the web. I quickly found this reference: britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/523208/Santeria. There's an article on Wikipedia, etc. The gist of Santeria as I understand it is that it is a Caribbean religion with roots in Africa that identifies spirit-beings worshipped by these people before they heard of Christianity with Catholic saints. So they merge their ... "tribal"? "traditional"? ... divination, animal sacrifice, etc, with some Christian beliefs.
Oct 26	comment	What's wrong with the Summa Theologica? Well, if I misunderstood the question, fine, I don't want to argue about it. Is "Eternal Law" a term used by Catholics to refer to a specific collection of doctrinal assertions? I was reading the question as referring to "eternal law" as it is defined in the Summa Theologica: "Accordingly the eternal law is nothing else than the type of Divine Wisdom, as directing all actions and movements." (Part 2.1, Q 93) i.e. as a general concept. Also note my second paragraph above.
Oct 26	comment	Are there any Christian denominations that don't believe Jesus is the only way to salvation? I readily concede that none of my quotes are from official church documents. But then, what the people of a denomination believe is not necessarily the same as what official documents say, especially if those documents are decades or centuries old. And what the leadership says is not necessarily the same as what the rank-and-file say, witness the present debates in the Anglican/Episcopalian church over homosexuality. I suppose it would have been more accurate to say that "here are some people who call themselves Christians who say ..." rather than "here are some churches ..." etc.
Oct 24	answered	What's wrong with the Summa Theologica?
Oct 24	answered	Are there any sects of Christianity that still practice animal sacrifice?
Oct 24	answered	Are there any Christian denominations that don't believe Jesus is the only way to salvation?
Oct 19	comment	God is love, pure, and all good, and omnipotent? And I would add, Be careful not to take simplistic definitions too literally. Like Christians often say, "God is omnipotent, and that means he can do anything." Then we get all tied up over questions like, "If God can do anything, then can he sin? Can he make a triangle with four sides? Can he make a rock so heavy that he can't lift it?" Etc. But these aren't problems with Biblical theology. These are problems that we created for ourselves by defining a word in a way that leads to such logical contradictions.
Oct 16	answered	What is the moral status of common-law marriage?
Oct 16	answered	Silly human laws
Oct 16	answered	What does it mean to magnify or glorify the Lord?
Oct 16	comment	Why don't women cover their heads? "I believe we must accept the scripture everywhere without forcing the language and then handle the 'damage' to our own ideas after the fact." Yes, I often hear people say something along the lines of, "The plain reading of this verse is X, but that can't be what it really means because most people today believe Y." Like yes, God said X, the latest Gallup poll said Y, so, huh, God must have been wrong. God sure is lucky that there are so many people around to help him fix all the mistakes he made in his book. :-)
Oct 14	awarded	Student
Oct 12	comment	What defines official Christian belief? God may not send emails, but he did write a book which is readily available on numerous websites!