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The question is a little unclear to me, but I think it predominantly concerns fixation on sin within the "domain" of the heart rather than the mind as understood within modern Western societies tha...
My understanding, which must be overly simplified, is that the founders of Christianity held that even though the pre-gospel books of the bible (the Hebrew bible or what Christians call the old tes...
The horns are based on Jerome's translation of the Hebrew word קָרַן (qaran) in Exodus 34:29 which means to send out rays or shine, and is related to the root word for horn (compare e.g. Genesis 22...
The Roman Catholic church, in the Council of Trent, forbade polygamy: If any one saith, that it is lawful for Christians to have several wives at the same time, and that this is not prohibited b...
I know the Bible talks about some people being drunk (Noah etc.), but are there any references to people using other drugs?
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When Michelangelo sculpted Moses, he carved the statue with two small horns on the top of Moses's head because in one of the translations at the time there was a verse that was mistranslated as "Mo...
The Westminster Larger Catechism (1648) Question 142 lists usury among the sins against the 8th commandment (highlight mine): Q. 142. What are the sins forbidden in the eighth commandment? A. T...
The following answer is based on my personal experiences and knowledge of the FIC movement. My dad was strongly influenced by Doug Phillips when young and I grew up homeschooled in the Bible Belt, ...
One of the concerns about allowing questions to ask for any perspective when asking theological questions is that it can turn voting into a popularity contest and spark debate that generates more h...
I propose that questions about the following are on topic: the history and historical development of Christian beliefs, biblical interpretations, and practices.
I propose that this should be off topic: Questions seeking specific (i.e., personalized) pastoral advice and/or counseling
Accuracy and 'literalness' are only two of several factors in a translation, and I would argue that they are subjective factors at that. I would propose the following criteria for selecting an Engl...
The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called the Synoptic Gospels because they obviously draw upon common source material. John, in contrast, is less similar to any of them than they are to ea...
There are two major frameworks of Biblical Theology in Protestant Christianity: Dispensationaliam and Covenant Theology. Simplistically, Dispensationaliam says there is a big discontinuity between ...
I grew up thinking that the practice of capitalizing pronouns referring to deity was pretty normal. Here's an example of it, from Matthew 4:11–12 (New American Standard), where "He" and "Him" refe...
Around 2010-2011 I was reading about the Family Integrated Church, a movement that basically said almost any family seperation during church services like Sunday School was wrong and families shoul...
Some of our early communities did bulk imports (with varying rules), and I and many others have now concluded that this was a mistake. That's my fault, and I'm sorry about it. Targeted imports ca...
This question about a polygamist who converts made me wonder about a different question. According to the Roman Catholic church, what happens if a marriage entered into in good faith later turns o...
It's hard to answer this definitively since I'm not completely certain that there isn't some earlier one that's just a lot harder to find nowadays (and I'm no Biblical Translation Scholar or anythi...
The general explanation I've heard (if I can try to summarize it) for "the problem of evil", of why a good God allows evil things to happen in the world, is that God doesn't want "robots" as he wan...
As we start on building a new community here together, we're bound to find some sticking points. Those might be bugs, new features you need, things you need support with... whatever they are, the C...
I propose that questions about the following are on topic: beliefs and practices of Christian churches, denominations, and movements.
The doctrine of Sola Scriptura is generally defined as the belief that, while tradition, reason, and experience may be sources of spiritual knowledge for the Christian, the scriptures are the only ...
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