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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)


Oct
26
revised Redaction criticism and grammatical-historical hermeneutics
Added the dating of Mark example
Oct
26
revised Redaction criticism and grammatical-historical hermeneutics
Slight clarification on what damage I mean.
Oct
26
revised Redaction criticism and grammatical-historical hermeneutics
Addressing Bruce Alderman's comments
Oct
25
revised Is John 7:53-8:11 inspired?
I'm using this as an example question to try and attract experts in Textual Criticism to the site, so I normalized the title.
Oct
25
revised Does the Sadducees' question in Mark 12 imply polygamy was considered sinful?
spelling
Oct
25
revised Is there a scriptural warrant for the literal-historical approach?
Trying to clarify the question.
Oct
25
revised Does Peter suggest Jesus “descended into hell”?
Hanging quote that will bug me the rest of the day if I don't fix it. ;-)
Oct
24
revised What's wrong with cooking a kid in its mother's milk?
rolled back to a previous revision
Oct
24
revised Does 2 Corinthians 9:6 indicate a reaping of earthly wealth?
I don't know how to use the biblical-theology tag, but the book should be tagged for sure.
Oct
24
revised How did the Greek “charis” come to imply “favor?”
Adjusting the tagging
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
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
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
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
20
revised What is “sin that leads to death” in 1 John 5:16?
Added a source.
Oct
19
revised Which hermeneutical approaches support a literal interpretation of the Creation account?
Added a key link
Oct
18
revised How does this KJV phrase change the understanding of 1 Tim 6:5?
deleted 1 characters in body
Oct
18
revised How does this KJV phrase change the understanding of 1 Tim 6:5?
Expanding on the meaning of the marginalia.
Oct
18
revised Which hermeneutical approaches support a literal interpretation of the Creation account?
The title of the question is misleading given the body and comments.
Oct
18
revised How does the Noah's Ark narrative relate to the Gilgamesh flood account?
Added relevant links in the hope the question could be opened again.