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  1. Fervent

    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    I'm not sure what you're refering to, but I apologize if I've caused offense.
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    What is your opinion? - The intended readership of Hebrews.

    It seems you have your profile limited, so you'll have to white list me in order for me to PM you
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    What is your opinion? - The intended readership of Hebrews.

    If you're really interested, I could PM you. And I can only imagine, as my background is about the polar opposite of Pentecostalism...cold, austere, doctrinal, Baptist.
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    It's not the criticisms that lead me to that assessment. That's a bit of a different animal from your previous criticisms, and there's certainly some merit in such. But we've gotten a bit far afield from questions of what "human flourishing" means and how such things reflect on ethics in...
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    What is your opinion? - The intended readership of Hebrews.

    I've made several trips, all at least partially related to theological issues. A common temptation. I'll have to add that to my to read list.
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    This strikes me as the assessment of someone who has lived the negative of the West, and developed a bit of idealized fantasy about other modes of living.
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    That understates the practical issues involved. I think there's more of a holistic challenge rather than swinging in that direction entirely, though there is something to be said about the disordered priorities that have developed from overreliance on philosophical approaches.
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    What is your opinion? - The intended readership of Hebrews.

    It was The Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus...which God confronted me about my pursuit of trying to figure out how He thinks and ended up putting me in the mental hospital.
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    It depends on how we define "human flourishing"...as that is quite an ambiguous phrase.
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    What is your opinion? - The intended readership of Hebrews.

    Yes, and perhaps my primary challenge is that if I want to escape a lot of the things central to my own perspective I need to seek out alternatives, so I perceive the hegemony of academic theology more of a threat to my objectivity than someone who is naturally an outsider. Diversity of...
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    I'm not sure your response presents a genuine challenge/issue with what I am saying since I'm not depending on a particular epistemic framework, merely the need to integrity in a commitment to objective categories of one stripe or another. I am not a foundationalist either, I am actually an...
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    Depends on what we're talking about. While the numbers of trans individuals is rare, the impact on culture cannot be denied. And it's far more than simply a matter of sexual mores, but a question of truth itself since "male" and "female" are objective statements not simply a matter of opinion...
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    Sounds like one of the more fad positions, like otherkin. Vanishingly small subculture, with a few particularly dedicated individuals making it appear more mainstream than it is.
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    Evangelicals for Harris apologizes for using Billy Graham sermons to attack Trump

    Sounds more like they're fulfilling legal obligations, rather than that they've actually had a change of heart over appropriating the material.
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    An Evil Spirit from the Lord

    There's more than just that, God refers to Uritic myths about creation with His reference to Leviathan(and possibly Behemoth). This is often overlooked because it is part of a different creation narrative than Genesis gives us and especially a different explanation of the origin of evil(as...
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    Child sacrifice, a transgression/ God sacrifices his only begotten

    There's some truth to that, though I still categorize it as a satisfaction theory insofar as it attempts to stand alone or as the primary theory. Personally, I prefer the notion that the atonement requires a number of different motifs and that the forensic motif is just a motif not to be pressed...
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    Minnesota says government agencies must ‘justify’ hiring white men

    The idea isn't exactly equally qualified, but capable of meeting the minimum requirements of the job. It establishes minimum qualifications and competence, if there are clear standouts then it allows for discretion in hiring. How devastating that hiring managers have to take a few minutes out...
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    Is God a do as I say not as I do God?

    You've given opinion, but it doesn't really appear a sensible one nor does it line up with what Scripture presents. The soul is the entire being, the spirit the immaterial, and the body the material. What you are presenting essentially appears to be an ad hoc scheme to support your UR...
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    Is God a do as I say not as I do God?

    And what is the basis of anything of the person surviving the death of the soul? What is it that is supposed to survive, exactly? In some points, but not always. In others it's used as a matter of consumption and annihilation.
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    Jesus claimed He came to fulfill the Law, Did He?

    There is, what appears to me, an anachronism in the thread title that is central to the debate. That is that when Jesus said "the law and the prophets" He was not speaking of the legal codes but the Scriptures themselves. The law is shorthand for the 5 books of Moses, the prophets are a bundle...
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