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| bio | website | alaskadataconsultants.com |
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| location | Fairbanks, AK | |
| age | 47 | |
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Control Systems Engineer.
Most people want to stick their head in the sand and ignore problems, in an effort to avoid conflict. I refuse to be that passive person. Problems are there to be fixed, which means that first they have to identified. Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
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Mar 2 |
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Was the discounting by the manager in Luke 16 a dishonest act? Discounting is a business process that happens all the time, where one will take less money earlier so that he can have the cash on hand instead of getting it later. It's not a dishonest process, but one worked out between both parties for mutual benefit. |
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Feb 28 |
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Did Pharoah have free will? added a little more info |
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Feb 16 |
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Does Gen 1:1 refer to day 1 or the entire 6 days of creation? @Jon, a good book that answers Sailhammer (and other theories like framework) is James Jordan's Creation in Six Days. |
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Feb 16 |
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Does Gen 1:1 refer to day 1 or the entire 6 days of creation? While I don't have the specific answer to your question, here's a link to a blog post I did on Gen 1:1. |
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Feb 16 |
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Are biblical texts concerning slavery transcultural or finite? added 130 characters in body |
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Feb 16 |
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Are biblical texts concerning slavery transcultural or finite? added 164 characters in body |
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Feb 16 |
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Are biblical texts concerning slavery transcultural or finite? @Dan, actually the slavery in Roman times was much different that the slavery in more Ancient times, but you bring up a valid point. Personally, I think all the specifics apply if they can apply. The OT sections you brought up couldn't be applied to employment today, but the Timothy one could be. I could find other OT texts that do apply today. |
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Feb 16 |
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Are biblical texts concerning slavery transcultural or finite? I think one problem is that it's too broad. If a book could be written on it, it may need scoping down. The easiest way to do this is not to start from a big idea and work down, but to start from a verse or word, and ask in such a way that it leads to answers that help with the larger question. |
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Feb 16 |
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Are biblical texts concerning slavery transcultural or finite? added 376 characters in body |
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Feb 16 |
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Was Deborah considered a sub-optimal leader? too late, I was working on the answer when it got closed. |
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Feb 16 |
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Are biblical texts concerning slavery transcultural or finite? I agree it's pretty doctrinal (course I like doctrine). |
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Feb 16 |
answered | Are biblical texts concerning slavery transcultural or finite? |
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Feb 16 |
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Was Deborah considered a sub-optimal leader? @Dan, too much to go into comments; basically, there are MANY forms of slavery. You're thinking of early-American slavery, but before that we had 'indentured servitude', then there was Roman slavery, which was pretty different (and important to hermeneutics to know some of the differences since they're addressed in the text). Just because you enter into an arrangement voluntarily doesn't mean it's not slavery. I chose to serve God, but that means I chose to be a slave to God (as opposed to the only other option, a slave to sin). See Romans 6:16. |
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Feb 16 |
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Was Deborah considered a sub-optimal leader? @Dan, I'm a huge opponent of letting culture determine our standards. The Bible always trumps culture. Technically slavery is still accepted out there, since most of us have jobs, and they're just a different form of slavery, with different parameters. And slavery was never condoned in the Bible, but God did make rules about it. |
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Feb 15 |
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Was Deborah considered a sub-optimal leader? @Bruce, actually Bruce it is an established doctrine, that has been upheld throughout the centuries and just attacked hard starting in the late 1800s/early 1900s. |
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Feb 15 |
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Was Deborah considered a sub-optimal leader? @Bruce, sticking our head in the sand doesn't make problems go away. Just like fighting abortion, we have to stand up and say something and not just 'go along to get along'. There's plenty of biblical examples to back this up. Paul was certainly never afraid to confront heresy. |
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Feb 14 |
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What role should textual (lower) criticism play in biblical hermeneutics (if any)? I wouldn't say 'always' a bad thing, but 'most always used to diminish the authority and authenticity of scripture' I would (of course I wasn't really clear on my other comment). |
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Feb 14 |
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Is 1 Corinthians 14:33-35 an interpolation? Textual criticism is the saddest thing; it only seeks to dismantle the Bible one verse at a time. |
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Feb 14 |
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Was Deborah considered a sub-optimal leader? added 3 characters in body |
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Feb 14 |
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