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Nov 2	comment	How many more Christian writings written between the crucifixion of Christ and the death of the last of the 12 apostles do we know of? @Caleb - I don't think, though, that my question is too broad - you yourself said "some of which we know of", which I expect to be quite a limited number.
Nov 2	comment	How many more Christian writings written between the crucifixion of Christ and the death of the last of the 12 apostles do we know of? @Caleb - Well, in fact, I didn't even know about that while I was asking this question. Well, then let's just follow here the definition of "Christian" as it is put forth on this site: Christian is whatever or whoever claiming to be such. Thus, I am interested in any writings of that time that claim to be Christian.
Oct 30	comment	Interpretation of the dead ones in 1 Peter 4:6? I see. Thank you!!!
Oct 30	comment	Interpretation of the dead ones in 1 Peter 4:6? "The "has been preached" is in the aorist passive-a past completed action ("was preached"). Therefore, what this verse is not saying is that dead people continue hearing the gospel, as the universalists desire so" - You are saying something very important to me here. Can you, please, elaborate. What is aorist? Is it a grammatical tense of koine?
Oct 30	comment	Interpretation of the dead ones in 1 Peter 4:6? Out of 4 times when Peter is using νέκρος in his epistle, the first two are definitely related to the physical death, not spiritual death: "...the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead" (1st Peter 1:3), "...God, that raised him up from the dead" (1st Peter 1:21). In order to support the idea that in the other two cases of the same epistle (4:5, 4:6) Peter suddenly switches from physical to allegorical use of this word, some stronger argument must be presented rather than just an allegorical sense of νέκρος used in a parable written by another author (Luke). Plus, here is not a parable.
Sep 22	comment	How many more Christian writings written between the crucifixion of Christ and the death of the last of the 12 apostles do we know of? @Jon - I just changed the title back to "How many more Christian writings written between the crucifixion of Christ and the death of the last of the 12 apostles do we know of?". You can close it, but I don't want people to think that I would ever ask such question as "Why are early Christian writings important?", which looks like quite a silly question to me.
Sep 19	comment	Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) significant? Thank you Mike!!!
Sep 11	comment	Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) significant? @swasheck - I see. Well, I just wanted to know how recent advancements in history, archeology, textual criticism, etc. have helped us clarify some points in the Bible that might've not been that clear to us, say, 200 years ago.
Sep 10	comment	Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) significant? @swasheck - Why are they closely-related? One is about particular scrolls (Dead Sea Scrolls), another one is about anything, which is not biblical scrolls, one is about the Old Testament, the other one is about the New Testament.
Sep 6	comment	Why the human brain is never mentioned in the Bible? @BlessedGeek - I don't think your sarcasm is to the point here as I did not at all imply by my question that the Bible should contain all details about everything. My question is only about the word "brain". Given the fact that the mind is mentioned in the Bible quite often it looks a bit strange to me that the brain is not mentioned.
Sep 6	comment	Why the human brain is never mentioned in the Bible? @swasheck - Mine is the second one, which is, as you said, "if 'thought' was so important, why didn't the ancients address the organ that we now know to be the center of 'thought?'"
Aug 5	comment	Do we have such expressions as “the holiest” in the New Testament Greek? "You form a superlatives by taking the adjective ἅγιος (holy) and adding ατοτος. I have not yet found any occurrences of this word in the Greek New Testament" - What about prepending πᾶς ('all') to an adjective? I mean such cases like παντοκράτωρ ('almighty') or παναγιότης ('all-holiness'). Do we have anything like that in the New Testament?
Aug 1	comment	Was Greek Mark's second language? "Similarly, Peter and John were likely not trained in Greek (see Acts 4:13)" - Why do you quote Acts 4:13 here? Given the Jews' hatred toward anything Greek shown in Acts 21:28, it seems to me that the high priests' thoughts of being learned and educated in Acts 4:13 was exclusively about the knowledge of the Law, which would, of course, involve the knowledge of Hebrew and Aramaic, but quite unlikely Greek. I mean, how do you know that Acts 4:13 implies teaching of Greek?
Jul 19	comment	1 Corinthians 13:12: “For now we see through a glass, darkly” Aaaah! I got it! Thank you.
Jul 19	comment	1 Corinthians 13:12: “For now we see through a glass, darkly” Thank you mike, but can you please explain what thin-fat-big-lipped mirrors are? If you can give a link to an image of such a mirror that will be great.
Jul 19	comment	1 Corinthians 13:12: “For now we see through a glass, darkly” @Ray - So did he in fact use the word "mirror" there?
Jul 16	comment	“Jesus said to them ”I am" (John 18:6) - Did Jesus break a taboo here? "OK, I used ISA to locate עבודה as H5656. Is that a Strong's number?" - Yes, it is. The problem is that in the Bible this word is never used for prayer or devotion and doesn't even have a slightest connotation of that: blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/… Besides, OT uses other words for prayer, such as תְּפִלָּה , פָּלַל and לַחַשׁ and those don't have a connotation of work. What is ISA?
Jul 16	comment	“Jesus said to them ”I am" (John 18:6) - Did Jesus break a taboo here? "Not realising that the word for prayer and devotion is the same word as Work - avodah" - What's the Strong's number for "avodah"?
Jul 16	comment	“Jesus said to them ”I am" (John 18:6) - Did Jesus break a taboo here? Thank you, Mike. I think you've nailed it here. The links in your answer are just amazing!!!
Jul 16	comment	“Jesus said to them ”I am" (John 18:6) - Did Jesus break a taboo here? "This phenomenon is exhibited by Watchman Nee's insistence that the Sabbath is put on hold" - As far as I know, there are many theologians who hold this view. Why do you specifically mention Watchman Nee here?