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Questions about theology, doctrine, philosophy
We're off to a great start and even have our first question! The question provokes some interesting questions about scope that I figured it'd be best to raise here for the community to discuss.
Typically, questions that are theological/doctrinal/philosophical in nature should specify a specific tradition from which they wish to hear, to prevent from being too broad and to enable answers to be evaluated based on conformity to a specific Christian tradition. Alternatively, we could allow answers from any Christian perspective (and ask that those posting answers state their perspective). What do you think?
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The Christianity Stack Exchange site didn't take long to realise that free-for-all questions were a bad idea. This isn't inevitable, if all the community members are exceptional respectful and patient with each other. But as a religion which (mostly) teaches Original Sin this isn't a very good assumption ;).
So while I'd recommend just requiring well-scoped questions from the beginning, if this site community wants to allow unscoped questions with scoped answers, they should do so as an experiment, and be prepared to tighten the rules quickly if it doesn't work out.
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