Caleb

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I am a scripting language connoisseur, regular expression aficionado, network geek, general lover of Linux and a frequent contributor to open source software. I transitioned to programming from other work because I was too busy automating my own work environment to actually do the other work. I have a hobby interest in cartography. For more see my personal site. Most importantly, my life is defined by the grace of God given to men through Jesus Christ. It is my ambition that everything I do would reflect His glory and point people towards Him.

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Sep 28	comment	Comma? “Verily I say unto thee today, …” or “Verily I say unto thee, today…” Merged hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/2471/… into this.
Sep 24	comment	Who were the “poor among the saints” in Jerusalem? @JackDouglas: The answer to this question may very well be that there is not anything going on here other than the obvious and the translations and commentators I ran across were pulling things out of their sleeve. That's what I am trying to determine.
Sep 23	comment	Does “foundations of the earth” in Job 38:4 refer to just the earth, or is it a metaphor for more? The first half of your question is right on target here. I'm wondering if the second half of this might need a doctrinal focus on Christianity. There is probably something to be pursued along the lines of Satan having one been the choir master of heaven before his fall, which we also believe to be before creation. Combine that with any textual evidence from this question, and maybe...
Sep 22	comment	What does it mean that the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John the Baptist? Welcome to Hermeneutics.SE. Could you expand this to show on what basis you have interpreted this verse this way?
Sep 21	awarded	Custodian
Sep 21	asked	Who were the “poor among the saints” in Jerusalem?
Sep 18	revised	What is the referent for “brother” in 1 John 4:20-21? Removed stuff that will be better addressed with a doctrinally oriented question on C.SE
Sep 18	comment	What is the referent for “brother” in 1 John 4:20-21? This question appears to be going two ways, and each way is better addrssed by a different StackExchange site. One way is to deal with the text and exactly how to interpret the word in it's context. For this I will move your question to Biblical Hermeneutics. In doing so, I'm going to edit out the other parts. The second direction you are going requires a doctrinal answer. You might consider asking another question here about what Christian traditions consider their "brothers" to be.
Sep 18	revised	What does “invoke the name of the LORD” mean in Genesis? Added topical title, added the verses in question to the body of the question, cleaned up English.
Sep 15	answered	What does it mean that the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John the Baptist?
Sep 13	awarded	Cleanup
Sep 13	comment	Who is judging who in Revelation 20:4? You hint in your last paragraph about the "theme of the rest of the following phrases and clauses". Is this just the topical connection that I can see in translations or is there a grammatical thing going on that draws a closer connection than that?
Sep 12	asked	Who is judging who in Revelation 20:4?
Sep 11	comment	Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) significant? The Dead Sea Scrolls and Protestant canon
Sep 11	comment	Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) significant? Do the Dead Sea scrolls describe any prophecy which was fulfilled after they were written?
Sep 4	revised	Should John 1:19 read “the only begotten God”? Copied content from second answer to extend first.
Aug 6	revised	When a new translation of the Bible is created edited body
Aug 4	comment	What language did Jesus commonly speak? People in some countries don't even identify their "first" language like we do, having grown up with several they find them either entirely interchangable or use them for different purposes without the stumbling blocks that we usually deal with when using a "second language".
Aug 4	comment	What language did Jesus commonly speak? Your argument for Jesus non-fluence in Greek sounds pretty flimsy here. I agree on your conclusions about Aramaic and Hebrew, but your summary of the issues surrounding Greek don't seem to warrant your conclusion that he "possible spoke a bit of Greek". In general your reasoning in this post and elsewhere seem very tried to certain premises about the usage of language that only really hold true in mono-lingual societies, particularly ones who's language is the lingua franca.
Aug 4	comment	Was Greek Mark's second language? I actually agree with your conclusions about Greek being more widely known than Ehrman (or Jon Ericson) are asserting, however your argument here about the conversation with Pilate doesn't seem to carry any weight as it is almost certain that appropriate translators were on hand for Pilate to handle other issues where language would been an issue.