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Recent content by Arctangent

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    LXX vs MT time in Egypt

    I absolutely agree that Israel was in Egypt 215 years, for the same reasons you cited. What this also means is that the Israelites weren't slaves for all that long, relatively speaking, and certainly not for 400 years. Joseph's brothers and father entered Egypt when Joseph was around 40...
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    An Un-asked For Street Debate In Greece

    As for her fast talking, to give her the benefit of the doubt, she may just be really intelligent, getting her words out as quickly as she processes them in her mind. Very intelligent people can also be very wrong about things.
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    What do these verses mean?

    For one, that is a very biased translation, allowing specific ideas unique to the Protestant Reformation to color the text and its meaning. Those same verses from the EOB New Testament: "18And so, as through one sin all men were condemned; likewise through one act of righteousness all men were...
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    What are most Christians doing to prep?

    We have probably a couple months worth of food preserved and set aside. We have a freeze dryer and a pressure canner with food and meals put aside from them, and we also have a stock of canned meat (such as SPAM, sardines, tuna, etc), peanut butter, rice, beans, etc. We have multiple 5-gal...
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    WWJD Did Jesus Pray to Mary?

    There is no reason that God would ask a created being for anything. Except as a child, in which case He prayed to Mary throughout His childhood.
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    'Will Heaven be boring?' John Piper responds to fears about eternity

    If someone is afraid eternity in heaven may be boring, attend the Divine Liturgy to practice for it.
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    Which would you prefer to see in your translation, "Yahweh" or "Jehovah"?

    When the Greek-speaking Jews translated the Scriptures into Greek in the few centuries leading up to Christ, they used "Kyrios" to translate YHWH/JHVH. That pattern continued in the New Testament. As that is the precedent set by the pre-Christian Jews and by the Apostles, then I am perfectly...
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    what is worship?

    If the essence of the question is "What is that which must be rendered unto God, and only unto God, and if rendered to anyone or anything else is idolatry?" then the answer is - other than the acknowledgement that He is God - incense and the Eucharist.
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    If no Orthodox parish - Catholic or Lutheran?

    My advice is to contact the closest priest and to work to find a way.
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    Romans 4, water baptism?

    Paul is not saying that he has no interest in people being baptized. Rather, he is saying that, with limited exceptions, he is not the one sent to do the baptizing. Paul is "sowing seeds", so to speak, doing the initial evangelization. Others after him will be the ones to baptize.
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    What is the “one baptism” mentioned in Ephesians 4:5? (I have an answer, but I would like input).

    It is not "one kind of baptism", as in water but not spirit, or spirit but not water. Rather, one baptism for all people, as opposed to a baptism for the Jews and a baptism for the Gentiles. The emphasis is on Jews and Gentiles being fellow heirs of the promises made to Abraham, and that there...
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    Question for Amillennialists

    There are two primary passages from the Old Testament that establish the "amil" view, and which establish the paradigm continued into the New Testament. One is Psalm 110:1-2 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at my right hand until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool. The LORD shall send the...
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    Jehovah vs Yahweh

    Aa far as I can tell, "Jehovah" gets the "v" correct, as well as the fact that there are three syllables, while "Yahweh" gets the "Y" correct. I don't remember where I heard this, but I had heard somewhere that the word "Adonai" preserves the vowel sounds of "YHVH", making it something...
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    Exodus and Egyptian Chronology

    I can't speak to every single detail, but at least many of these discrepancies are cleared up when we use the genealogies as they appear in the Greek translation of the Old Testament instead of the Masoretic Old Testament. The Greek translation is seemingly based on a Hebrew that is different...
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    Do Greek English speaking people call their saviors name Jesus?

    I know lots of Greek Christians, many of whom are native Greek speakers who speak English as a second language. Every one of them that I know pronounces it the English way when speaking English and the Greek way when speaking Greek.
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