Jon Ericson

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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 17	answered	How should “ektroma ” be translated in 1 Corinthians 15:8?
Nov 17	asked	How should “ektroma ” be translated in 1 Corinthians 15:8?
Nov 17	comment	How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? discussion in chat
Nov 17	comment	What is the meaning of “calculate” in Revelation 13:18? In textual criticism, it's not unusual to reject the "easy" reading because it's more likely that a scribe altered a passage to make it more understandable than that he would make it less understandable. So if a scribe noticed that Nero satisfies 616, he might "correct" 666. It sounds like Irenaeus used that principle too, which make me all the more interested in the man. :-)
Nov 17	accepted	What is the meaning of “calculate” in Revelation 13:18?
Nov 17	comment	Does 1st Kings say that pi = 3? Welcome to Biblical Hermeneutics! This is a well-reasoned response. I too wonder why this explanation was so quickly dismissed in that article.
Nov 17	revised	How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? Oops. I decided to go with John's account, not Mark.
Nov 17	comment	What is the meaning of “calculate” in Revelation 13:18? The article by J. Hampton Keathley, III is quite enlightening. It also makes me want to read Irenaeus, who seems a very level-headed character.
Nov 16	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Nov 16	comment	Did Jesus have the legal authority to cleanse the temple? @transistor1: You (and only you) can +1.5 it. ;-) (But I actually prefer Monica's answer be accepted, so please don't do that.)
Nov 16	asked	What is the meaning of “calculate” in Revelation 13:18?
Nov 16	comment	Is the person who “denied the faith” in 1 Timothy 5:8 still a believer? @Richard: That seems all-to likely. I wonder if we could find a source for that...
Nov 16	answered	Is the person who “denied the faith” in 1 Timothy 5:8 still a believer?
Nov 16	answered	Did Jesus have the legal authority to cleanse the temple?
Nov 16	comment	How should graded numerical parallelism in Hebrew poetry be understood? I'm sorry Bob, I really don't buy any of this. Plus the answer fails to addresses my question. Why does the author use progressive numerical parallelism? If it's about the Trinity, why are there four things, not three?
Nov 16	comment	Does base-10 numbering in Genesis 4:24 argue against the Wiseman hypothesis? It's clearly not literal, but I don't see how any of this answers my question. The passage doesn't say 70*7 for instance. For another, Jesus says exactly the opposite of Lamech. You have some good ideas, but this answer is a miss.
Nov 16	reviewed	Reject suggested edit on “Until they see the kingdom of God” in Luke 9:27 and parallels
Nov 15	asked	Does base-10 numbering in Genesis 4:24 argue against the Wiseman hypothesis?
Nov 15	comment	Did Jesus have the legal authority to cleanse the temple? I think you are correct about Roman law with the proviso that if Jesus threatened to start a popular revolution he'd be crucified.
Nov 14	comment	Does 1st Kings say that pi = 3? That's a lovely rabbit hole you made me jump down. ;-) The article mentions that to an engineer, π ≈ 3, which is a pretty good summary.