@ThomasShields yes, it also has some tricks to try to avoid bad questions...not that is succeeds all the time (you can search MSO and find some history on it, I think some of its selection criteria is public there)
@ThomasShields lol, shoot for 80 edits then you can start working towards review :)
@ThomasShields yeah, one day I'll have S&W there :). Mostly I just need to find quesitons I can answer there...found a couple last weekend, hopefully I can find a couple more this weekend....
@ThomasShields yeah, part of my problem is that the code that I write at work is about the simplest vb.net/aspx code you can write...its coding, but it doesn't use a lot of the features of vb.net and most of its exists to fit into our system, which doesn't help me even thing about vb.net questions on SO...
@waxeagle ah, yeah. Mine's similar, but sort of reverse - I learn completely from experience, so I have a sort of limited subset of knowledge that only applies to what I needed to know to finish something.
@waxeagle would a question about sermon-type (a purely objective question of course) be acceptable? I was thinking of asking for the biblical basis for different types of sermons
(i'll post on meta if you're busy/can't respond, just thought I'd do a quick ping in case you're right there)
actually, i should probably post on meta for future reference, anyways
At my church, my pastor is quite adamant about a particular type of preaching. I'm well aware of alternative methods of preaching. It seems to me these methods are quite important; to the lay person as well as the pastor.
Can I ask a question about the biblical basis for a method of preaching? ...
At my church, my pastor is quite adamant about a particular type of preaching. I'm well aware of alternative methods of preaching. It seems to me these methods are quite important; to the lay person as well as the pastor.
Can I ask a question about the biblical basis for a method of preaching? ...
Does the community pay lot of attention to tags? And what happens if a question is wrongly? What does it cost me? If it costs me nothing shouldn't the community take a look at it, because I for instance, am often lazy looking for already created tags that relevant to my question. This is often du...
The gentile's woman cries reach Jesus because she had the faith to believe he was the Son of David and Messiah sent to the lost sheep of Israel by God.
Her answer means the crumbs (bread of Jesus flesh) she reached for were the trashed works of Jesus ignored by the lost sheep of Israel.
Howeve...
the problem with pictures of Jesus is that 99% of the time they're trying to represent Jesus Christ, our savior. Which a picture can never do. (see this, it's related)
I'm not going to burn anyone with a picture of Jesus.
I've got kids books with pictures of "Jesus" in them.
but i think those serve a totally different purpose - they show the kids that "look! Jesus was real! he really did live! he really did die! he was a real human being like you and me!"
1) most of the time i'm not trying to capture the soul in a picture of another person 2) even if I am trying to capture the soul, i'm working with material I have in front of me. I've seen this person's facial expressions; I *know* how soul-related personality traits are represented physically
Also, with a person, speculation is okay. I can guess at what Socrates would have looked like and try to capture his personality in an image. But I can't do that with God. He's God. We can't guess about him.
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that we cannot guess at all. We "see through a glass darkly", we make some attempt to understand the revelation. "see in part and know in part"?
But I'm guessing that your experience with these pictures generally is that they are trying to express the divinity, not just the physicality.
I'd argue that "for now we dimly" is actually proving my point. Compare to other passages like "for we live by faith and not by sight" or "for we hope for what we do not see"
We can't see yet - we will, someday, and it will be glorious! there's nothing wrong with imagery. But we don't see yet, so we have to trust in God's word (a fundamentally different medium than imagery)
again, i'm not totally dissing any pictures of Jesus. I just think we need to be careful - very careful - not to try to somehow capture God in a picture.
At my church, my pastor is quite adamant about a particular type of preaching. I'm well aware of alternative methods of preaching. It seems to me these methods are quite important; to the lay person as well as the pastor.
Can I ask a question about the biblical basis for a method of preaching? ...
The gentile's woman cries reach Jesus because she had the faith to believe he was the Son of David and Messiah sent to the lost sheep of Israel by God.
Her answer means the crumbs (bread of Jesus flesh) she reached for were the trashed works of Jesus ignored by the lost sheep of Israel.
Howeve...
The Upper Room
The Upper Room