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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Oct 21	comment	Is Leviticus 12 saying that giving birth to a child is a sin? Is there an online version of the Babylonian talmud or did you have to type it out from an offline source? I've had the hardest time using Google to find anything from a talmud.
Oct 21	comment	How consistent were Augustine's hermeneutics? I hope you don't mind, but I added a couple of links that helped me get a start on understanding your answer. (I also italisized the book title so that it stands out a bit more.) Feel free to re-edit.
Oct 21	revised	How consistent were Augustine's hermeneutics? Added a few links and italisized the book title. Feel free to re-edit to your liking.
Oct 21	answered	Are Andronicus and Junia(s) apostles?
Oct 21	comment	Exodus 6:3 - what is the significance of God's different names in the Tanakh? I edited this question because I thought it would be an interesting one to point out in a question on the Judaism site.
Oct 21	revised	Exodus 6:3 - what is the significance of God's different names in the Tanakh? I'm cleaning up the question a bit so that I can point to it on the Judaism site. Feel free to re-edit.
Oct 21	comment	How does “Sensus Plenior” differ from Allegory, Gnosticism, Kaballah, and Midrash? I hope you don't mind, but I edited out the "meta" portion of the question. We should try to avoid talking about the site instead of talking about hermeneutics. Feel free to re-edit to your liking.
Oct 21	revised	How does “Sensus Plenior” differ from Allegory, Gnosticism, Kaballah, and Midrash? Removed the "meta" bit of the question. That belongs on the meta site.
Oct 21	comment	How does “Sensus Plenior” differ from Allegory, Gnosticism, Kaballah, and Midrash? You may be the one in the best position to answer, Bob. ;-)
Oct 21	revised	Are there scriptural standards by which a hermeneutic method can be measured? Trying to help Bob by feeding out some application. I do feel this is important.
Oct 21	comment	Are there scriptural standards by which a hermeneutic method can be measured? @Bob: Maybe because its the end of a long day, but I don't understand the question. Could you rephrase your comment?
Oct 21	answered	Pre-Christian, Jewish interpretation of Psalm 22
Oct 20	asked	Are Andronicus and Junia(s) apostles?
Oct 20	revised	What is “sin that leads to death” in 1 John 5:16? Added a source.
Oct 20	comment	Which hermeneutical approaches support a literal interpretation of the Creation account? There's been quite a bit of debate on meta and the chat about how questions like these should be asked, if at all. As you point out, the question seems to start off on the wrong foot altogether. Personally, I upvoted your answer and agree with it. Your excellent analogy about the route from New York to London probably belongs in the answer itself.
Oct 20	answered	What is “sin that leads to death” in 1 John 5:16?
Oct 20	comment	Are there scriptural standards by which a hermeneutic method can be measured? I answered the question contained in the body, but I see the title asks a broader question. One or the other (or both!) should probably be edited to make them agree (even at the expense of making my answer irrelevant).
Oct 20	answered	Chronology of Jesus' ministry: John and the Synoptics
Oct 20	accepted	Is Paul suggesting that Philemon release Onesimus from slavery?
Oct 20	comment	Is Paul suggesting that Philemon release Onesimus from slavery? Yes, thank you. Given the rest of the Pauline corpus, I think you've hit the nail on the head. Paul's concern is to heal relationships first and correct social injustice later (if ever). It would be nice if he had called for an end to slavery altogether here, but he didn't.