Activity for Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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Comment	Post #281936	@elemtilas: Thank you! I appreciate it. (more)	—	over 3 years ago
Comment	Post #281936	I very much appreciate this perspective, especially as I was unaware (as I'm not Catholic) the Catholics teach that "everything in the pre-christian scripture is to be read allegorically". Do you have sources you could add to help people see how this response is from their viewpoint? I don't know wha... (more)	—	over 3 years ago
Comment	Post #280698	For a completely non-serious answer: Nebuchadnezzar was on grass for seven years! (Daniel 4) :) (more)	—	over 3 years ago
Edit	Post #281178	Initial revision	—	over 3 years ago
Answer	—	A: Are there any examples in the Bible of people using psychoactive agents (other than alcohol)? It's hard to prove a negative, but I've done a bit of research and can't find anything that really fits the description of a story where people took such "psychoactive agents". Certainly I think that instructions to have sober minds (such as say, 1 Peter 1:13 and 5:8 though there may be better exampl... (more)	—	over 3 years ago
Edit	Post #279630	Initial revision	—	almost 4 years ago
Answer	—	A: In Genesis 4:14, who is Cain refering to when he says "whoever finds me will kill me."? [This answer is from a Young Earth Creationist perspective, taking the first chapters of Genesis fairly literally compared to some other perspectives. It's informed by what I've heard over the years about Cain and the early history of humanity. I've put some resources at the end about Cain from group... (more)	—	almost 4 years ago
Edit	Post #279432	Initial revision	—	almost 4 years ago
Answer	—	A: Which was the first English Bible translation to capitalize pronouns referring to deity? 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 anything, just someone who's been digging through search engines and Wikipedia occasionally digging for an ans... (more)	—	almost 4 years ago
Comment	Post #279378	Perhaps another part of the challenge is that a lot of the discussion I've had on Codidact is meta-discussion, where not everything is really a "question" and it's a bit contorted to figure out what should be in an "answer" vs. a "comment" when they're both just "discussion content" that shows up in ... (more)	—	about 4 years ago
Comment	Post #279257	Yikes, as I put in my comments to that meta question from @laserkittens, my comment was more about trying to understand the perspective than any attempt to disagree with it. Please interpret it in the most charitable way you can. :) (more)	—	about 4 years ago
Edit	Post #279378	Initial revision	—	about 4 years ago
Answer	—	A: Are comments a platform for debate? Yikes, I can see how I was misinterpreted there. I was interested in hearing more, including from the Calvinist perspective (or if that's the wrong term, from the perspective of those who don't see humanity as having as much "free will" (whatever that means) as I tend to think we have), and was just ... (more)	—	about 4 years ago
Comment	Post #279261	I think your question actually has a lot to do with how "modern capitalization conventions" have changed over time in general. It might be worth asking about the history of capitalizing pronouns that refer to God on [the Languages site](https://languages.codidact.com/) too. (more)	—	about 4 years ago
Comment	Post #279257	Thanks; this is a useful perspective, though I'm not sure how I feel about the implication that God therefore must have created our hearts with the desire to sin even though he didn't need to. (more)	—	about 4 years ago
Comment	Post #279242	@mattbrent Are you thinking along the lines of multiple independent upvote buttons, one meaning "I agree with this answer" and another for "This answer presented a perspective well and answered the question from that perspective even though I may not agree with it", and perhaps yet another for someth... (more)	—	about 4 years ago
Comment	Post #279172	It's definitely tricky to find the right balance, where Codidact's focus (if I understand correctly) is foremost on building a *community*, of which good Q&A is but one (though key) piece. My initial thought is along the lines of I'd want to ask a question here much like I'd want to ask a question at... (more)	—	about 4 years ago
Comment	Post #279261	There are some earlier references on the Wikipedia article for [Reverential capitalization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverential_capitalization), but it's not clear to me from that which was "first" or how it's distinguished from the general 17th/18th century practice of capitalizing a lot more ... (more)	—	about 4 years ago
Comment	Post #279172	I don't know how possible it would be in practice, but I'd really like to instill a culture of upvoting meaning something like "this is a useful contribution to the discussion helping one understand a perspective" and not "this is the correct opinion on the matter". It's going to take some effort and... (more)	—	about 4 years ago
Edit	Post #279153	Initial revision	—	about 4 years ago
Answer	—	A: What color scheme should this community have? I'm no graphic designer, but my first instinct would be something along the lines of the Wordless Book or Christian Flag, including at least red and white. (more)	—	about 4 years ago
Edit	Post #279150	Initial revision	—	about 4 years ago
Question	—	How can we have free will without sin in heaven, but can't do so on earth? 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 wants people to choose to worship and follow him. And if we're given that free will, then inevitably we wil... (more)	—	about 4 years ago