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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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May 4 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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May 3 |
answered | Why is the law about cooking a goat in mother's milk listed with instructions about feasts? |
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May 3 |
answered | What's wrong with cooking a kid in its mother's milk? |
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May 3 |
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Was Mark A Scribe? That's a good, but difficult question. Note that even the best answer will amount to informed speculation, however. |
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May 3 |
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Does Matthew 6 prohibit public displays of faith? edited tags |
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May 3 |
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Reading the Bible via verse and chapter and not getting the intended meaning? edited tags |
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May 3 |
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Does Theophilus of Antioch's statement have any bearing on interpreting Mathew 5:28? edited tags |
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May 3 |
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What is morphological analysis, as it relates to Bible study? edited tags |
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May 3 |
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What distinguishes an excellent concordance? edited tags |
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May 3 |
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Where can I find Greek and Hebrew plain text sources? edited tags |
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May 3 |
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Does the NLT translate Luke 9:7 accurately? edited tags |
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May 3 |
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Is the Valley of Hinnom adequately translated as hell? edited tags; edited tags |
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May 3 |
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By what Name did God reveal Himself to Abraham? edited tags |
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May 3 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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May 2 |
reviewed | Reviewed What does it mean to be “born of water”? |
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May 2 |
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What does it mean to be “born of water”? Hi Rod. We're looking for knowledgable answers and this looks a bit on the speculative side. Might I recommend digging into the text a bit more and, perhaps, looking at what other interpreters have said about it? Thank you. |
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Apr 30 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Why is the tribe of Dan missing from Revelation 7:5-8? |
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Apr 29 |
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Where does the Tanakh differ from the Christian Old Testament? Incorporating suggestions from Frank Luke and Noah Snyder. |
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Apr 29 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on When does it all start to go wrong for Solomon? |
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Apr 29 |
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What are the limits to the Christological hermeneutic? While I agree that the Christological hermeneutic is the interpretation philosophy of the New Testament, I'm not convinced that the three quotations from Paul illustrate it. Certainly, he interpreted everything in light of the cross (and your allegory is a good one), but there are other places in Paul (and from Jesus himself) that show how Christians re-interpreted the Scriptures in light of the person of Jesus and saw the church as fulfilling the promises made to Abraham and Israel. But good stuff overall and +1. |
