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 14	answered	What does “image” in Genesis 1:26-27 mean?
Nov 14	asked	How should graded numerical parallelism in Hebrew poetry be understood?
Nov 14	comment	Did Jesus have the legal authority to cleanse the temple? This is a fine question, in my opinion. It's certainly different from my question, which just assumed Jesus would not have human authority to drive off the money changers and sellers.
Nov 14	revised	Is Hosea 6:1-3 a prophecy of Jesus? Dur... Old Testament, not New.
Nov 14	revised	Is Hosea 6:1-3 a quotation? Clarify my clarifying section.
Nov 14	comment	How many people were involved in the Exodus? On #3: are there any hints this should be taken in a "mythological" sense? Genesis fits into the creation-myth genre, but is there an exodus-myth genre? It just seems like there's so many trappings of history in the majority of the Torah it would be hard to take it as anything but a historical account.
Nov 14	comment	How many people were involved in the Exodus? I see you don't actually answer the question, but provide three options. ;-) #2 is the one I'd be most interested in exploring, myself. #1 is the "safe" answer for most believers.
Nov 14	revised	Is Hosea 6:1-3 a quotation? added 115 characters in body
Nov 14	asked	Is Hosea 6:1-3 a prophecy of Jesus?
Nov 14	asked	Is Hosea 6:1-3 a quotation?
Nov 14	comment	How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? @Monica Cellio: I've heard so many times that commerce at the Temple was corrupt that I assumed it was. But I'd like to have a source other then my Sunday School teachers (who are probably the best analogue in the Protestant tradition to midrash), but I haven't found any so far. I'll keep looking as I have time.
Nov 12	revised	Does 1st Kings say that pi = 3? deleted 2 characters in body
Nov 12	comment	How many people were involved in the Exodus? A related question exists on the Skeptics site.
Nov 11	asked	How many people were involved in the Exodus?
Nov 11	asked	Does 1st Kings say that pi = 3?
Nov 11	comment	How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? Thanks for taking a risk to answer a New Testament question. Clearly the idea of "civil disobedience" is a couple thousand years anachronistic. ;-) Your answer brings up an interesting question: how much commerce was allowed in the temple?
Nov 11	asked	What did the blind man from Bethsaida see?
Nov 10	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on old-testament tag wiki
Nov 10	comment	How should we understand the “Cleansing of the Temple”? @GalacticCowboy: Right. I think both views would agree that Jesus was correcting injustice and disrupting commerce; those phrases could probably be swapped at will. (It's a hard question to ask neutrally and without bias. I tried not to use overly-loaded terms.)
Nov 10	comment	What is the “clear sign” in Philippians 1:28? I already gave you my +1, but I do appreciate the clarification.