Lance Roberts

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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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Apr 19	comment	Is Ecclesiastes a book of negative wisdom? @Ron, no God said he wrote the Bible, so you are calling him one. Though accusing the men who penned it for him is also slander, since you'd be saying that they disobeyed the prompting of the Holy Spirit and wrote their own words. This is a mighty accusation, and obviously since you weren't there you have no proof of their disobedience.
Apr 19	comment	Is Ecclesiastes a book of negative wisdom? @Ron, then you're saying that God told you something that contradicted what he had already said, therefore you're calling him a liar.
Apr 17	comment	Is Ecclesiastes a book of negative wisdom? There is no reason to doubt its authenticity. It was included in the canon, God preserved it and we have it. It is holy scripture like the rest of the Bible. Ecc 1:16 and 1 Kings 4:29 show that Solomon was the author, there was only one wisest man, and God stated clearly who that was.
Apr 3	comment	How should the story of David's concubines be read? I've twice tried to fix the plurality error in your first sentence from 'concubine' to 'concubines' but someone keeps refusing the edit. could you please fix it?
Mar 22	comment	How is this passage on the authority of women to be interpreted? @ChrisB., while I would say that yes, he gives the reason so there is no reason to look for another; in the main, I don't think cultural interpretation ever applies unless the Bible tells us specifically that's how we need to look at it. Of course, here we are told specifically that the reason is founded in the created order that God established.
Mar 22	comment	How is this passage on the authority of women to be interpreted? To be more precise, I'm fine with cultural arguments ONLY if the Bible tells us that the verses in question are culturally-specific, not if someone just thinks they are. For example, the law of circumcision was fulfilled with the coming of Christ, so that law is now see as being only for a certain time.
Mar 22	comment	How is this passage on the authority of women to be interpreted? @swasheck, there were definitely more verses that could have been brought in, I didn't try to find every single one. The 'occasion for writing' is covered in examining the context, which is done through the Grammatical-Historical method, and doesn't have the same subjectivity as the S-C method.
Mar 22	comment	How is this passage on the authority of women to be interpreted? Hmmm, while I would say it is the only, absolute way to interpret this, we are all finite and imperfect.
Mar 8	comment	Is John 7:53-8:11 inspired? @Bruce, from wikipedia: "On the other hand, many scholars strongly defend the Johannine authorship of these verses, and present opposing arguments and counter-analysis"
Mar 8	comment	Is John 7:53-8:11 inspired? @swasheck, actually most textual critics today are secular scholars. My accusations aren't wild, but deliberate. What I have a grasp of is the results of textual criticism, the eradication and casting doubts on the Bible, one verse at a time.
Mar 8	comment	Is John 7:53-8:11 inspired? From wikipedia: "On the other hand, many scholars strongly defend the Johannine authorship of these verses, and present opposing arguments and counter-analysis"
Mar 8	comment	Is John 7:53-8:11 inspired? @Bruce, no Bruce I'd say wikipedia is incorrect, though it may be because of dating fallacies. It'd be pretty pretentious for anyone to claim that is was added in in the 5th century.
Mar 8	comment	Is John 7:53-8:11 inspired? @swasheck, we have a huge amount of texts with these verses (and others) and the textual critics do their best to come up with a logical scheme to cast doubt on the veracity of those verses. Their standard appeal is to use some form of dating to say that since a version or two didn't have it in it, then they're right and all the rest are wrong. Very poor logic, but obviously as this question points out, they succeed in casting doubt on the integrity of scripture.
Mar 8	comment	Is John 7:53-8:11 inspired? @swasheck, it was in the majority of texts before they made the canon, so pretty far back.
Mar 7	comment	Is John 7:53-8:11 inspired? The big problem with textual criticism is that it leads to this kind of cutting out of portions of the Bible. There are some Biblical penalties for doing this that they should really assess.
Mar 2	comment	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.
Feb 16	comment	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.
Feb 16	comment	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.
Feb 16	comment	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.
Feb 16	comment	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.