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| bio | website | fivesecondreview.wordpress.co… |
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| location | Pasadena, CA | |
| age | 39 | |
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My day-to-day work is with a combination of C, ksh and PL/SQL. I enjoy asking and answering questions that come up at work. I also dabble in Perl, lua and LaTeX. My boss has asked me to learn Python as well.
My favorite living philosopher is Alvin Plantinga and my favorite dead philosopher is Blaise Pascal. I think Paul of Tarsus is too little credited as a force in Western philosophy. If you think I'm a Christian, you're right.
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. -- 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 (ESV)
At home, I have a potted herb garden, potted dwarfed citrus, and a hanging hummingbird garden. My wife and I are also trying to grow a son, but he's harder to feed and train properly.
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Dec 12 |
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Was Billy Sunday the first evangelist to equate the “altar call” with salvation? The Society for Effective Evangelism webpage mentions Finney and Moody as pioneers of the altar call. But the question is really about whether they (or anyone else before Rev. Sunday) asserted that "public definite enlistment for Christ makes you a Christian." In other words, just walking to the front of the church at the proper time saves you; no need to get baptized, no need to go to church, no need for regular prayer, etc. |
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Dec 12 |
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What are Christians called who believe in a non-intervening God? A strong case can be made that Lincoln was a deist for most, if not all, of his life. |
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Dec 12 |
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What are Christians called who believe in a non-intervening God? Cleaned up the question a touch and re-tagged. (See http://meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/a/1437/914) |
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Dec 12 |
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What are Christians called who believe in a non-intervening God? See also: If there is a God, how is that relevant to us? and Evangelicalism and politics. |
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Dec 12 |
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How could God's form be seen prior to His incarnation? edited tags |
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Dec 11 |
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Who is Father or God in Christianity Added links, retagged and reformatted. |
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Dec 11 |
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What reasons does Christianity give for “Why There Must Be A God?” edited tags |
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Dec 11 |
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How can an all powerful supreme being be either good or evil? edited tags |
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Dec 11 |
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What do Jehovah's Witnesses believe about the nature of God? edited tags |
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Dec 11 |
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Should we put God to test? edited tags |
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Dec 11 |
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Are all things possible with God? edited tags |
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Dec 11 |
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Does God lie? And does devil tell the truth? edited tags |
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Dec 10 |
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What are the differences between the spirit of God and spirit of Man? I _think_ this is the question you were asking, but the text is unclear. Feel free to reedit if I screwed something up. |
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Dec 10 |
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Do Calvinists believe that God does not love the world, but only the elect? edited tags |
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Dec 10 |
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Were the Jews expecting the Messiah to suffer at all? Judah: I'm afraid I need to reverse my vote. It's not that I disagree with you (in fact I'm very sympathetic to your argument), but because it's getting harder and harder to see how this is a helpful answer to the question. I hate to say it, but it seems like you might need a total rewrite in order to incorporate all the arguments you are attempting to include. I feel partially responsible for leading you astray by my comments. For instance, I'm not suggesting that Psalm 22 was a messianic text. I was suggesting it's very difficult to know if it was or not. |
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Dec 10 |
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Does God need our praise and glory? Related: What practical effect do stock worship phrases, like “God be magnified”, have? |
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Does God need our praise and glory? edited tags |
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Dec 10 |
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How to verify if a “message from God” came from God? edited tags; edited tags |
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Dec 10 |
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Does God hate Sinners like he hates Sin? edited tags |
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses believe the 144 000 are from Israel? edited tags |
