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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 |
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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 2 |
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Does Genesis say where evil came from? @Monica: I don't think so. Perhaps that's part of the question: what started humanity on a downward spiral from the "very good" of Genesis 1 to the "great wickedness" of Genesis 6? Was it questioning God's goodness? But that would make the question even bigger. Do you have a suggestion of how to narrow it down or break it up? Should I remove the question from Job? |
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Nov 2 |
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Does Genesis say where evil came from? I'm still trying to ask more tanakh questions. This one arose from a book I'm currently reading: "The God I Don't Understand". |
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Nov 2 |
asked | Does Genesis say where evil came from? |
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Nov 2 |
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Does Joh 14:26 speak to assumptions about hermeneutics? @Bob: As I say, feel free to re-edit. (You may even rollback to your original question.) I may be wrong, but I don't think we care about traffic enough (in the short term) to ask confrontational questions that will set the wrong tone for the community (in the long run). The site will be best served by the tortoise's strategy. We are not going to be in for a pleasant time together if you insist on asking overly-confrontational questions. I hope you'll reconsider. |
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Nov 1 |
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Who is included in “us” in Ephesians 1:3-10 This is a good question. I haven't delved into Ephesians enough to feel comfortable answering it at the moment, however. |
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Nov 1 |
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Can we use “linguistic fingerprints” to identify different authors of the Bible? I seem to recall an article very much like this being passed around a year or two ago. Now, as then, I'm frustrated by the lack of detail on exactly what the technique entails. Obviously, a news article can't be expected to be heavy on technically details, however. Perhaps someone can dig up a journal article or paper to help us understand what textual markers are being proposed. |
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Nov 1 |
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Can we use “linguistic fingerprints” to identify different authors of the Bible? I tried editing the question (mostly the title and tags) to narrow the focus a bit. The number of authors question gets complicated quickly, but the "linguistic fingerprints" aspect might be manageably answered. I didn't know exactly what to do with the text of the question, because I don't understand all your terms. If you haven't got the answers you'd like, I suggest providing a bit more detail about what you mean by "graphological" and "old-school" vs. "computer-based techniques". |
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Nov 1 |
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Can we use “linguistic fingerprints” to identify different authors of the Bible? I edited the question to be a bit more manageable. Unfortunately, I don't know what to do with last paragraph. |
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Nov 1 |
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How do the books in the Bible get their names? Welcome to Biblical Hermeneutics! It looks like you got the answer you wanted, but I think the Christianity site is a better venue for the topic. Question here tend to be more associated with the meaning of the texts and techniques for discovering that meaning. |
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Nov 1 |
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What was meant by “paradise” when Jesus spoke to the thief on the cross? +1: N. T. Wright comments (in nearly all the books by him I've read) that the righteous won't go to "heaven" in the Resurrection, but to a new creation, which included a new heaven and a new earth. As you suggest, one guess about what happens to the righteous before the Resurrection is that they wait in paradise. |
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Nov 1 |
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Was Ezekiel 37 understood as a prophesy of a literal Resurrection? An excellent answer that prompts a great many questions! The Talmud is absolutely fascinating and I wish I had enough background to read it without getting stuck every few minute. |
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Nov 1 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? Clean up my own grammar. Like Mark, I was in a hurry. |
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Nov 1 |
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Did King Hezekiah do something wrong in showing off his wealth to emissaries from Babylonia in II Kings 20? When asking Tanakh questions it probably makes sense to use the JPS translation as you have. I'll try to remember that. |
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Nov 1 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? I went ahead and answered according to my hermeneutical presupposition. (But as you will see, I use a variety of methods to arrive at an answer. Maybe it would be better to call them "presuppositions".) |
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Nov 1 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? I went ahead and answered my question. I've thought about the problem a lot and so it was inevitable that I'd have to provide an answer at some point. Feel free to poke any holes you might see in my argument. ;-) |
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Nov 1 |
answered | Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? |
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Nov 1 |
awarded | Beta |
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Nov 1 |
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Does Joh 14:26 speak to assumptions about hermeneutics? Well, this is my best shot. Most of the work was actually cutting words that don't (in my opinion) help you get the meaning of your question across. I also picked the ESV, which will help an average reader understand the passage better. As always, feel free to re-edit. |
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Nov 1 |
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Does Joh 14:26 speak to assumptions about hermeneutics? This is how I would ask the question. As always, feel free to re-edit. |
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Nov 1 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? @GalacticCowboy: I don't think your first option is possible: "But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David." (1 Samuel 22:20 ESV) I believe high priesthood in David's time was for life unlike in Jesus' time. (But I don't have a source at hand for that.) |
