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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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Oct 28 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? @Ray: We need to be prepared to answer questions that make unstated premises and question the authority of Scripture. I hope that someone like the younger Dr. Ehrman (when he was not yet committed to debunking the Bible) would be able to ask questions like this and get helpful answers. I encourage you to submit your own answer. |
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Oct 28 |
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How do you know an allegory is valid? Do you know, this answer helps me understand the method quite a bit. May I use the following definition? Sensus plenior: "the scriptures are viewed as a giant crossword puzzle." ;-) |
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Oct 28 |
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How does Jesus' argument from David and the show bread work? More clarifying details |
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Oct 28 |
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How does Jesus' argument from David and the show bread work? Thanks for the feedback. Writing questions is hard and I don't always get my meaning across. Let me edit and try again. |
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Oct 28 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? David coming to Ahimelech in Nob seems to be the direct reason Saul killed him. Abiathar managed to escape. So you are right to say that the time Jesus refers to was a time of transition in the high priesthood. |
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Oct 28 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? @Ray: That, of course, also answers the question. (However, Jesus was talking about the high priest, which means one person, and referencing a story from before the First Temple. So be careful. ;-) |
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Oct 27 |
accepted | Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? |
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Oct 27 |
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How do you know an allegory is valid? It occurs to me that this is a very Cartesian (skeptical of tradition) answer and I don't usually take that position. Hmmmm... |
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Oct 27 |
answered | How do you know an allegory is valid? |
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Oct 27 |
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How do you know an allegory is valid? Excellent! (But does the KJV really use seethe rather than boil? Maybe another translation would be more applicable to the question.) |
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Oct 27 |
answered | What are higher and lower criticism? |
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Oct 27 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? Another data point in Mark is in 1:2 when he quotes Isaiah and Malachi, but only cites Isaiah. |
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Oct 27 |
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How do you know an allegory is valid? I know the context, but I think it would help to make it explicit. My suggestion would be to quote the passage that brought up the comment and ask if boiling can be a symbol of tribulation here. The question underneath is good, but I'm afraid the context will be missing for most readers. (I'd rather not vote to close this question, but it's a bit to specific to a particular time and place for this site as it's currently phrased.) |
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Oct 27 |
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Redaction criticism and grammatical-historical hermeneutics Added a warning. (The joke is on me. I need to be more clear.) |
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Oct 27 |
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Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? @ashansky: Thanks for the pointer. I wouldn't accept the accepted answer here, however. ;-) It's a really tricky hermeneutical problem. |
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Oct 27 |
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Redaction criticism and grammatical-historical hermeneutics let us continue this discussion in chat |
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Oct 27 |
asked | How does Jesus' argument from David and the show bread work? |
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Oct 27 |
asked | Who named the wrong priest in Mark 2:26? |
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Oct 26 |
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Redaction criticism and grammatical-historical hermeneutics Added the dating of Mark example |
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Oct 26 |
answered | Does Jesus show compassion to demons in Mark 5:12-13 |
