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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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Nov 25 |
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Does Paul reject the idea of celebrating holidays in Galatians? Welcome to Hermeneutics.SE! Thanks for the answer. |
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Nov 23 |
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Does Paul reject the idea of celebrating holidays in Galatians? Inspired by a question on Christian holidays in general and our challenge of the "week". |
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Nov 23 |
asked | Does Paul reject the idea of celebrating holidays in Galatians? |
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Nov 23 |
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Why is the logic in 1 Cor 2:15 when Paul says “the spiritual person…is himself to be judged by no one” @Jack: I double checked with the NET translation notes, which are usually helpful, and yes: that's almost word for word how the notes explain the phrase. I think Paul takes for granted that everyone (spiritual or not) may be understood by God Himself, if that's what your question is about. |
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Nov 23 |
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Why is the logic in 1 Cor 2:15 when Paul says “the spiritual person…is himself to be judged by no one” Bringing in the NET Bible. |
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Nov 23 |
answered | Why is the logic in 1 Cor 2:15 when Paul says “the spiritual person…is himself to be judged by no one” |
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Nov 23 |
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Is Psalm 19 an example of the Teleological Argument? I thoroughly agree. I would further say that Psalm 19 would be a circular argument if it were intended to be Teleological as the psalmist assumes God exists and has characteristics such as being perfect in goodness and power. (And I think the argument works best to refine our understanding of God--not to establish it, so I probably won't be interested in the answers I would get on Philosophy.SE.) Thanks for the answer. |
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Nov 23 |
accepted | Is Psalm 19 an example of the Teleological Argument? |
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Nov 23 |
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How can I identify puns in the Hebrew Bible? @Bob: Interesting. I hadn't thought of that connection before. |
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Nov 23 |
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What sort of disaster is Joel addressing? Note: Joel has only 3 chapters in most English translations as the short, 5-verse chapter 3 in the NJPS is appended to chapter 2. (I just so happened to be listening to Joel today or I would not have noticed.) |
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Nov 23 |
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Is Job 28 a part of Job's speech? Good point about the chapter divisions. Another way to look at the start of 29 is that it's a really long speech. After a while, the reader (and any listeners) would start to lose track of who is speaking and so a reminder could be in order when the topic changes. |
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Nov 22 |
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When did Jonah compose his prayer in chapter 2? @Monica: Good point. Here's how it would go if I had been in Jonah's sandals: Day 1: What the...? Day 2: It's really disgusting in here! Day 3: HELP! (There are textual reasons to suppose it was composed sometime later, but that will have to wait for my formal answer when I have time. ;-) |
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Nov 22 |
asked | What happened to the 500 witnesses in 1 Corinthians 15? |
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Nov 22 |
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Does the NT concept of grace exist in the OT? In the KJV, grace and salvation are linked in Genesis 19:19 "Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:" (Other translations use "favor" instead of "grace", but I don't know how that means something different in this context.) |
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Nov 22 |
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Is Job 28 a part of Job's speech? I know you know this, but for the sake of people reading this later: quotation marks represent an interpretation on the part of the translator. Neither ancient Hebrew nor Greek had symbols for demarking a passage as a quotation. So the question is about how the passage in question ought to be rendered using modern punctuation. (It's a great question that I don't know how to answer myself. +1) |
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Nov 22 |
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When did Jonah compose his prayer in chapter 2? Inspired by another question and conforming to the current challenge. |
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Nov 22 |
asked | When did Jonah compose his prayer in chapter 2? |
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Nov 22 |
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Did Jonah expect to die when he was thrown overboard? Ah. I wonder when he wrote the prayer... (My theory is that the prayer was composed later based on his own thoughts in the belly, but informed by his eventual rescue. The "my prayer" in verse 7 would then be self-referential in a sense.) |
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Nov 22 |
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Did Jonah expect to die when he was thrown overboard? I liked your deleted answer too. ;-) At the point of volunteering to become a sacrifice, it's possible Jonah thought he might be rescued; in the belly of the leviathan, it's certain he considered himself dead. |
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Nov 22 |
asked | Is Psalm 19 an example of the Teleological Argument? |
