Muke Tever

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I like to split hairs.

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Jan 2	comment	Is Hell eternal, or do some/all escape it? As an annihilationist myself I must say that even Rev. 14:11 doesn't necessarily mean an eternal suffering -- smoke can easily outlast a fire.
Dec 30	comment	What is the specific meaning of “day” in Genesis 1? Rhetorical question: If an author sits down to write for seven days in a row, how much time passes in the story?
Dec 28	comment	Is incest a sin? It's been pointed out to me that if there were other people not descended from Adam, they would not have been subject to original sin, and this might have theological consequences to the idea. (Though the two types of people might be one explanation of the 'sons of God' vs 'daughters of men' in Gen. 6:2 and 6:4.)
Dec 28	comment	Is incest a sin? @Marc Interesting! Are the antediluvians included in that 'all', or only people of the present age? As Noah was descended from Adam, everyone born since the Flood would indeed be descended from Adam as well, whether there were non-Adamic people before the Flood or not.
Dec 28	comment	When did the older English spelling of the endings of Isaiah and Elijah stop being used in the Catholic Church? I can't answer the Catholic parts of the question but if Esaias/Isaias and Elias are used in Catholic contexts it's probably due to their being the names used in Latin (Latin having borrowed the -ias forms from Greek). See Esaias/Isaias and Elias in a Latin dictionary.
Dec 28	comment	When did the older English spelling of the endings of Isaiah and Elijah stop being used in the Catholic Church? The -ias was due to the Greeks. The Greeks would have heard the Hebrew names, which end in -yah(u) as Esaia and Elia. (Greek normally only had 'h' at the beginning of words.) In Greek grammar, though—as is also usual in English and Latin—a name ending in bare -a is considered feminine. But unlike English or Latin, which will leave a man's name in -a alone (English "Joshua", Latin "Dolabella") Greek grammar involves changes to the word which make it similar to more usual forms of men's names. In particular, the nominative has -s added to it. (Google 'Greek first declension' for more.)
Dec 24	comment	Is Political Correctness showing shame for our God? Not all offense is personal indignation, though. It may well be seen a religious offense--a sin, as we might say. From the sources on a question on being exposed to Christmas music at the Judaism Stackexchange, it looks like questions relating to the prohibition of idolatry and worshipping foreign gods may enter into it. This kind of issue can't exactly be reproduced by "turning the tables" because Christianity implicitly recognizes the God of Judaism, but Judaism does not recognize Jesus as God.
Dec 24	comment	Is Political Correctness showing shame for our God? I always wondered why so many people expect to hear 'Merry Christmas' so far in advance of the day, like expecting a "Happy 4th of July" in mid-June. If it's Christmas, say Merry Christmas. If it's Hanukkah, say Happy Hanukkah. But if you have to say something because it's just generally December?
Dec 20	comment	Does my monk go to heaven? You have "The short answer is, according to Scripture, yes." -- but the rest of your post seems to support the answer "no".
Dec 7	comment	What does the Bible say about Modesty? @user8077 You're missing at least one link in your reasoning: At the beginning you say God gave Adam and Eve clothing because of sexual attraction, and at the end you say it was because of shame -- which is like saying that they both did and did not have shame at the same time. Your conclusions may be fine, but make sure your reasoning supports them.
Dec 6	answered	What does the Bible say about Modesty?
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Dec 4	comment	Are the images we draw of Jesus correct? Background: Wikipedia on depictions of Jesus and the race and appearance of Jesus
Dec 3	answered	What is the difference between being blessed and being happy?
Nov 26	comment	Are we born sinners? The passages you choose are the same as those quoted in my reference -- though also added is Job 14:4: "Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!"
Nov 24	comment	Is there a basis for Christian holidays in the Bible? @Muke (On the contrary side, while 'meat offered to idols' may still be meat, it has also still been offered to idols.)
Nov 24	comment	Is there a basis for Christian holidays in the Bible? Of course, being a "pre-Christian pagan tradition" needn't be as bad as it sounds. Certainly some traditions may been pre-Christian and have had a pagan origin, but their being carried over to the Christian holiday suggests that the pagan religious sense was not still felt enough to prevent its being carried over -- the traditions may have passed, so to speak, out of the rites of a religion and into the non-religious customs of a culture. They could have been thought on a par, one could say, with fireworks on the 4th of July or a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving.
Nov 22	comment	Career as a Means of Worship Ecclesiastes 9:7-10, while given in the pessimistic phrasings of that book, does touch on a few of your points.
Nov 19	comment	How could Job be content with the second half of his life? People recover from grief even in cultures without afterlife beliefs... and he lived for 140 years afterwards, which is quite a lot of time to recover from grief and return to contentment with one's life, even without a philosophy that allows one to bear it easily.
Nov 16	comment	Significance of Genesis 1 verb choices Aside from leaving out all the 'said' as Peter mentioned--they are clearly what are called 'performative utterances' here--I should also say that none of the "passives" you mention are actually passive. The passive of 'the land produced vegetation' would be 'vegetation was produced by the land', and I don't believe you can make a passive of 'there was light' or 'it was so' at all. (Maybe 'passive' isn't the word you mean here? You might want to clarify.)