Posts by Nathaniel
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 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...
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 don...
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 wo...
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 c...
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 Christi...
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 ...
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 Jamaic...
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 argum...
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...
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...
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 Chin...
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 soldie...
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 sys...
