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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Feb 16	comment	Was Deborah considered a sub-optimal leader? too late, I was working on the answer when it got closed.
Feb 16	comment	Are biblical texts concerning slavery transcultural or finite? I agree it's pretty doctrinal (course I like doctrine).
Feb 16	comment	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.
Feb 16	comment	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.
Feb 15	comment	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.
Feb 15	comment	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.
Feb 14	comment	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).
Feb 14	comment	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.
Feb 6	comment	Has the meaning of “Love” changed enough to warrant substitutions in Bible translations? Actually, rethinking things is what does change culture on the physical scale, with the Grace of God and Power of the Holy Spirit changing it on the spiritual scale. In other words, the grace of God enables men to think differently, and it that rethinking is what God uses to change men's hearts. Culture is religion externalized.
Feb 6	comment	Has the meaning of “Love” changed enough to warrant substitutions in Bible translations? The Bible is always to be taken as a whole, so you always have the larger context. One of the components of exegesis is to analyze the nearer context to see if the word is being used differently. Sometimes that takes some study.
Feb 5	comment	Does the Shibboleth story help us date the book of Judges? Please don't tag questions that don't apply to the whole 'old testament' or 'tanakh' as such. It dilutes the effectiveness of the tag. The 'judges' tag tells us the location in the text.
Feb 2	comment	Does the story of Tamar and Judah in Genesis 38 typify gender relations in Genesis? Could you please narrow it down to a specific textual question?
Jan 14	comment	What is the head covering referring to in 1 Corinthians 11:4-6? @GalacticCowboy, every rule/law in scripture comes down to a matter of the heart. There is a principle behind it all, but the specifics still matter. Paul used the principle of not muzzling the ox that treads the corn to show that it's ok to pay pastors, but that didn't make muzzling the ox any less relevant.
Jan 13	comment	What is the head covering referring to in 1 Corinthians 11:4-6? Good article, but realize that unless the Bible specifically tells us that something is for the culture of the day (which usually involves abrogation) then it still applies today. We judge the culture by the Bible, not the other way around. God wrote his word for all people, for all time. So it's still unbiblical (shameful) for a woman to have short hair, and a man to have long hair.
Jan 13	comment	Should Christians get tattoos or avoid them (biblically) a) That law wasn't abrogated like the food laws, so it still applies. b) There is a principle behind the law; God created you in his image, when you mutilate/disfigure yourself for appearance's sake, you're rejecting God's design for you, and descrating the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Jan 12	comment	Why does Noah curse Canaan? Did you intend the 'ch's in Ham and Noah?
Jan 11	comment	Was Goliath killed twice? The KJV does a better job by inserting the text "the brother of". It's critical in Bible translation/exegesis to always look at the parallel passages in the Bible.
Jan 2	comment	Why did John take Mary, who was married, into his home? @Ryan, because it was a custom, and with his INFINITE wisdom, he decided that John should take care of her.
Dec 30	comment	Why did John take Mary, who was married, into his home? @Ryan, Yes, Jesus always obeyed God's law, but he often showed how he fulfilled it, and to us it seems like he changed it. He did it with the sabbath, and he did it in this case with familial responsibility.
Dec 27	comment	Why did John take Mary, who was married, into his home? @Ryan, No, we know she had other sons (and daughters). If he was referring to cousins, he wouldn't have mentioned both brothers and sisters. Also, Galatians 1:19, "But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother." Jesus delegating the responsibility shows us just how close John was to him.