Activity for Peter Cooper Jr.
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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) |
— | about 3 years ago |
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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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
— | over 3 years ago |