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| bio | website | fivesecondreview.wordpress.co… |
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| location | Pasadena, CA | |
| age | 39 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
| seen | 13 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 155 |
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 9 |
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What is the meaning behind the parable of Children in the Marketplace in Luke 7:31-35? Do fancy quotes not work in `code` blocks? This looks a touch better. |
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Nov 9 |
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Why is “rega`” translated “peace” in Job 21:13? Italisize Hebrew transliterated words. |
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Nov 9 |
asked | Why is “rega`” translated “peace” in Job 21:13? |
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Nov 9 |
answered | What is the meaning behind the parable of Children in the Marketplace in Luke 7:31-35? |
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Nov 9 |
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What is the meaning behind the parable of Children in the Marketplace in Luke 7:31-35? ¡Bienvenidos a BH.SE! Thanks for the question. I have some ideas, but they may be as shallow as what you already know. Let me poke around a bit to see if I can find anything else. |
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Nov 8 |
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“Back in ships to Egypt” in Deut. 28 +1: But what about the "ships"? |
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Nov 8 |
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What does Jesus mean in Matthew 26:64 with “You have said so”? Good call. Now I wonder why Matthew might have changed the wording of the answer to claim a bit less? (One answer is that he was working from a different source in the Passion account. The Synoptic connection starts to break down at the end of the various gospels as the authors turn to their own, unique narratives.) |
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Nov 8 |
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What does “reconciling all things” mean in Colossians 1:20? +1: I had to answer myself before I could be sure that I agree. ;-) |
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Nov 8 |
accepted | Where did Samuel come from when he was summoned by the Medium of En-dor? |
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Nov 8 |
accepted | Does John 7:15 mean Jesus was untaught? |
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Nov 8 |
accepted | Does Daniel 12 imply the righteous will become stars? |
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Nov 8 |
accepted | Was Ezekiel 37 understood as a prophesy of a literal Resurrection? |
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Nov 8 |
accepted | What is the relationship between the “Adversary” in Job and the serpent in Genesis? |
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Nov 8 |
accepted | Does Peter suggest Jesus “descended into hell”? |
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Nov 8 |
answered | What does “reconciling all things” mean in Colossians 1:20? |
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Nov 8 |
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What do we learn from the different usages of “aman” and “batach” in the OT? Thank you for helping me understand. |
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Nov 8 |
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What do we learn from the different usages of “aman” and “batach” in the OT? If your life depended on knowing the relationship of the length the hypotenuse to the sides of a right triangle (because of the structural integrity of the platform you are standing on or some such), might you have boteach in the Pythagorean theorem? (I think I understand, but I want to verify.) |
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Nov 8 |
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What do we learn from the different usages of “aman” and “batach” in the OT? +1: I don't know enough about Hebrew to answer this question, but I'd probably start by seeing how LXX translated those words into Greek. |
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Nov 7 |
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What does “reconciling all things” mean in Colossians 1:20? I just had to highlight this question, which made me smile: "Assuming that Paul is not contradicting himself in the span of a couple verse, how can we reconcile these two sets of verses?" |
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Nov 7 |
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Does Daniel 12 imply the righteous will become stars? @GalacticCowboy: Wright says about this passage that it wasn't even talking about Jews in general, but to the oppressors and martyrs in the conflicts described in Daniel. It was initially interpreted as a way to put things right for just those particular people. According to him, the idea of a general resurrection began when the Maccabees co-opted this and other passages to explain their own martyrs. |
