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| bio | website | fivesecondreview.wordpress.co… |
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| location | Pasadena, CA | |
| age | 39 | |
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My day-to-day work is with a combination of C, ksh and PL/SQL. I enjoy asking and answering questions that come up at work. I also dabble in Perl, lua and LaTeX. My boss has asked me to learn Python as well.
I'm married, with three children: a son and a set of mixed-gender twins.
My favorite living philosopher is Alvin Plantinga and my favorite dead philosopher is Blaise Pascal. I think Paul of Tarsus is too little credited as a force in Western philosophy. If you think I'm a Christian, you're right.
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. -- 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 (ESV)
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Who are the πρεσβυτέροις in 1 Peter 5:1-5? edited tags |
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How did the Greek “charis” come to imply “favor?” edited tags |
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What word best captures the spirit of לִּילִית in Isaiah 34:14? edited tags |
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Why is “raah” usually translated differently in Amos 3:6 and 9:4 edited tags |
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Is NWT's translation of John 8:58 reasonable? edited tags |
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Is “wait” in Isaiah 40:31 active or passive? edited tags |
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wiki | created translation-approaches description |
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wiki | created translation-approaches excerpt |
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translation wiki description added 90 characters in body |
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May 8 |
reviewed | Reviewed “A god” or “God” in John 1:1? |
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May 7 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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May 7 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Is there any exegetical reason for believing the seven churches of Revelation correspond to seven successive “church ages”? |
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May 7 |
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What are the limits to the Christological hermeneutic? Hi hannes. I appreciate the effort, but I'm afraid (as @Caleb mentioned) this isn't helping me understand anything about the question I asked. |
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May 7 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 6 |
asked | How should the prepositions in Romans 11:36 be translated? |
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May 6 |
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How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? +1. In addition, the money changers themselves (even if they were completely honest) would have been one of the barriers to worship for foreigners. Since the temple did not take foreign currencies, a person from a distant nation would have needed to take an extra step that a local would not have. The final quote from Isaiah 2 fits in well with the Mark version which includes the fig-tree miracle: "And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’..." (Mark 11:22-23a ESV) |
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How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? I'm not sure how I missed this until now, but thanks for the answer. Out of curiousity, why did you skip Matthew? |
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Did Jesus have the legal authority to cleanse the temple? Hmmm... I suppose it depends a bit on how effective Jesus action was in reforming the Temple. My thought is that after a few hours, the tables had been set right, the money-changers were back in action and the animals (whether blemished or not) were waiting to be slaughtered. In other words, the action itself was not effective. In that scenario, Jesus' authority as builder of the temple would have been less immediate to his role as prophet. But ultimately, as you say, if Jesus saw himself as David's son, he had authority in the temple for that reason as well. |
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Did Jesus have the legal authority to cleanse the temple? Hi Matthew and welcome to Biblical Hermeneutics! This is an excellent answer and well argued. Since I wrote my answer, I've read The Challenge of Jesus by N. T. Wright. He suggests that Jesus' action in the temple was symbolic judgment against it along the lines of Jeremiah smashing clay jars or Ezekiel lying on his side. I don't think that view conflicts with the view that Jesus was taking on the role of King and son of David, however. Thanks again for the answer and I'm looking forward to more. :) |
