Activity for Nathaniel
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| Edit | Post #281619 |
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— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281619 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Does the Catholic Church teach that use of artificial contraception within marriage is a worse sin that fornication? Recently I stumbled across an article by Catholic writer Matthew Walther, entitled The Conservative Case for Teen Pregnancy. With a title like that from a Catholic, I was expecting to see an argument for early marriage, followed quickly by children, but instead Walther critiques what he calls the "s... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281618 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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What is the origin of the explanation that Joshua's long day was actually an extension of the previous night? Recently when studying Joshua 10 and the "long day," I encountered an explanation of the event that posits that in the morning Joshua actually asked that the darkness be extended so that his soldiers could do battle without the heat of the sun. As a result, God sent a storm that darkened the sky wit... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280821 |
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| Edit | Post #280821 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: What does "Ethiopian" mean in George Liele's "Ethiopian Baptist Church"? It turns out that "Ethiopian" in this context was not meant to communicate the nation of Ethiopia, but more broadly to mean Black or African. Doreen Morrison writes: > [Liele] and his followers co-opted the notion of 'Ethiopianism' and began to refer to themselves as Ethiopian Baptists, Ethiopia ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280820 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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What does "Ethiopian" mean in George Liele's "Ethiopian Baptist Church"? The Wikipedia article for George Liele, a freed slave and the first American missionary, indicates that as part of his missionary work in Jamaica, he founded the "Ethiopian Baptist Church of Jamaica". Where does the connection to Ethiopia fit in? Was he or his family originally from Ethiopia, or we... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279866 |
Post edited: stray link code in last edit and fix dash in last paragraph |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280015 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Does the Geneva Bible make substantial corrections to Tyndale, or just stylistic changes? In the history of the English Bible, the work of William Tyndale is impressive for a number of reasons, one of which is how closely subsequent translators followed his language. Tyndale translated primarily from original Greek and Hebrew sources, and the next major English Bible to do so seems to ha... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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How do Modalists respond to the idea that the Trinity is necessary for the manifestation of God's love? I often hear an argument defending the doctrine of the Trinity that says that God is by nature loving and relational (see, for example, 1 John 4:7–8), and that he exists independent of his creation. That is, if there were only one person in the godhead, instead of three, God's love wouldn't have a w... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279360 | Post edited | — | over 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #279360 |
Suggested edit: In my experience "Early Church Fathers" usually refers to 4th century and before; in fact many have said that John of Damascus was the last of the fathers. (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279331 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Why did John Knox reject the offer of the bishopric of Rochester? In a lecture on the historical background to the Westminster Standards, around minutes 12–13, Sinclair Ferguson mentions that John Knox was offered the bishopric of Rochester, "whether to give him more scope for ministry or to silence him." Per Wikipedia, the offer was given because Knox was seen as ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279328 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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What is a polygamist supposed to do upon converting to Roman Catholicism? 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 by any divine law; let him be anathema. But in many areas of the world, polygamy is still practiced,... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279305 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279305 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Ideas for what could be included in a Resources category I feel like a "resources" category similar to what the Languages site has could be of use. One way would be to provide resources for people interested in providing answers, such as: Popular systematic theologies by tradition Popular exegetical works by tradition Popular church history wor... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279261 |
@Peter Interesting! Hadn't seen that article. It'd be tangentially interesting to know if any of the early "capitalize all nouns" translations also capitalized deity pronouns (and not other pronouns), but I'd say my focus here is on translations that generally follow modern capitalization conventio... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279261 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Which was the first English Bible translation to capitalize pronouns referring to deity? 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" refer to Jesus: > 11 Then the devil left Him; and behold, angels came and began to serve Him. 12 Now whe... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279260 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Has the "Back to Jerusalem" goal of sending 100,000 missionaries from China been accomplished? According to a 2003 book entitled Back to Jerusalem: Three Chinese House Church Leaders Share Their Vision to Complete the Great Commission, several prominent Chinese Christians contended that China could and would send at least 100,000 missionaries to other countries, particularly countries between ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279259 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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What is the basis for believing that Peter actually wrote the book 2 Peter? 2 Peter has an interesting history. Apparently some in the early church doubted that Peter actually wrote it (as per Origen and Eusebius), but it eventually made it into the canon for most Christians. Today, most scholars apparently reject Petrine authorship (see Wikipedia). But many Evangelical... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279249 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Should I copy my content from the Other Site to this one? Does it make sense to copy my content from the Other Site to this one? To be clear, I definitely don't want a straight dump of all the content. I'm not even sure that some rule-based mechanism would be worthwhile... like "questions not closed, score +1 or higher". But, for example, I have part... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279247 |
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| Comment | Post #279242 |
I'm not optimistic that a community of any decent size would be able to resist the urge to use votes to favor viewpoints that the majority agrees with, especially when they appear as multiple answers to a single question. The ability to push "truth" above "heresy" by upvoting one answer and downvoti... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279247 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How should we handle questions that (probably) don't depend on denomination/tradition? Ultimately this and many other questions come down to who you define as "Christians". Yes, there are certainly things that 99% of Christian groups believe. But the 1% exist, so what should be done about them? This is further complicated because most of the 99% don't have any idea that the 1% e... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |