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| bio | website | johansens.us |
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| location | Michigan | |
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Sep 27 |
answered | Are other religions treated differently by any major branch of Christianity? |
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Sep 24 |
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Why didn't Jesus give proof to the priests? @GregMcNulty Within 100 years of Jesus death he was known throughout the Roman world, in Ethiopia and in Persia. It's not at all clear that having a few more of the priests on his side would have made a dramatic difference. Plenty of Romans became Christians within a generation or so. |
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Sep 24 |
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Why didn't Jesus give proof to the priests? @GregMcNulty Yes, there are the accounts left by Matthew and John that are preserved in our modern Bibles. :-) I don't know of any other surviving documents, but suppose there had been a dozen. Surely skeptics would claim they were all forgeries or lies or hallucinations, just like they do about Matthew and John. I don't see how adding a few more would make a difference. |
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Sep 24 |
answered | Why didn't Jesus give proof to the priests? |
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Sep 24 |
answered | What is the view of the various denominations on the ontological status of music? |
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Sep 24 |
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Was anyone making a theological point by changing the ending of Jesus Christ Superstar? ... that could be considered definitive: the resurrection, the healings and other miracles (note the only miracle we see is one weak example of foreknowledge), fulfilled prophecy, etc. Personally I saw it as expressing the view of someone who doesn't know who Jesus really was and is seeking answers. |
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Sep 24 |
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Was anyone making a theological point by changing the ending of Jesus Christ Superstar? I didn't know there was a 1999 version and I've never seen it. But the 1973 version never mentioned the resurrection. We saw Jesus crucified, then the big finale song number, then the cast gets on the bus looking thoughtful and drives away. I always took it as a very pointedly open-ended ending. The finale clearly asks if Jesus is really God or what. I always assumed they left out the resurrection because they don't want to say there was one. They want to leave it as an open question. Most of my Christian friends saw JCS as anti-Christian because it ignored everything from the Bible ... |
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Sep 24 |
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According to the young-earth perspective, when were races created? Well, except that the traditional theory is that Japheth was the ancestor of the Europeans, not Shem; Ham the ancestor of the Africans; and Shem the ancestor of Middle-Easterners and Asians. We get the word "Semite" from Shem. The prefix "Sino-" for Chinese (as in "Sino-American relations") also may be derived from Shem. It is true that some people have used the curse on Canaan as an excuse to oppress blacks, but Biblically this doesn't make much sense as Canaan was the ancestor of ... ummm ... the Canaanites, not black Africans. |
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Sep 21 |
answered | According to the young-earth perspective, when were races created? |
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Sep 21 |
answered | Is there a connection between 666 and Solomon? |
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Sep 21 |
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Is there a connection between 666 and Solomon? @DanAndrews If by "666 is often in the bible as is 7" you mean that 666 occurs frequently in the Bible, I don't think that's true. Besides the example cited here and Revelation, the only occurrance I can find is Ezra 2:13, where it is given as the number of people in one of the families returning from captivity to Israel. |
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Sep 21 |
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Is there a connection between 666 and Solomon? @MonikaMichael It's not quite as unlikely a coincidence as you make it sound. Sure, the probability that my random 3-digit number will be the same as yours is only 0.1%. But if a thousand people each pick a 3-digit number, the probability that at least one of them will pick the same number as you is ... quick calculation ... about 73%. There are lots of numbers in the Bible. I'm sure if this number hadn't matched but you'd noticed that, say, Ahaseurus reigned over 666 provinces (Esther 1) you would have made a similar post. |
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Sep 21 |
answered | What is the significance of the number 666? |
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Sep 8 |
answered | Who was Pharaoh when Moses lived in Egypt? |
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Aug 31 |
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What percent of Christians believe Jesus was not God, and instead was messenger of God? You're going to get tied up in questions of definitions. I'd say that by definition, if you don't believe that Jesus was God, then you are not a "Christian". It's like asking, "What percentage of Canadians do not hold Canadian citizenship and have never been to Canada?" Obviously there are people who call themselves Christians and don't agree with that. So the question is, Who defines what the word means? or What definition are you using? |
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Aug 31 |
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When and why did the ancient church no longer care about offending a brother? Hey, I'm a Protestant, I oppose praying to saints. But I can't imagine telling Catholics they should stop because it offends me. There's the other half of Paul's statement: I have to respect their conscience, too. |
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Aug 31 |
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When and why did the ancient church no longer care about offending a brother? The things you are talking about -- religious icons, praying to saints, etc -- are things some do as a form of worship. When you say they should have kept these things "private", do you mean that they should not have worshipped as they thought appropriate in their own churches? What, someone should pray to a saint in his own home, but not in church? What is he supposed to do? Like I said in my original post, the weaker-brother rule does not and cannot mean that one Christian, no matter how sincere, has a veto over every other Christian in the world. ... |
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Aug 30 |
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Did Jesus' parables have different meanings to the different Gospel writer's congregations? "Zounds! I shouldn't try to plant seed in a weed-patch! I never thought of that!" Likewise, the parable says nothing about all the plants eventually dying. There is no indication that Jesus had any such point in mind. Just because Jesus compared people who hear the Gospel to plants doesn't mean that you can take literally ANYTHING that is true of plants and apply it to people who hear the Gospel. That parable has one clear message: to discuss the different reactions people have to hearing the Gospel. |
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Aug 30 |
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Did Jesus' parables have different meanings to the different Gospel writer's congregations? Mmm, I'm afraid I disagree. The parable of the sower is surely not intended to be advice for farmers. It assumes some things about farming as a basis for the metaphor, but if the audience didn't already know or readily accept that, then the whole point about different kinds of hearers would be lost. Jesus would first have had to convince the audience that, e.g. seeds don't grow well in rocky soil, before he could use that as a basis for the analogy. I sincerely doubt any farmer has ever read this parable and said, ... |
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Aug 30 |
answered | When and why did the ancient church no longer care about offending a brother? |
