Overall I'm concerned with the tack your taking and how it fits with the idea of an Expert level site. We're not here to answer simple questions and answers, the idea behind this (and all SE sites) is to ask and answer expert level questions. For people who are knowledgeable in the subject are to ask and answer questions.
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One of the most basic protections that we use is to make sure everyone involved in a question is speaking the same language. IE a doctrinal framework or denomination or something to scope it down.
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This is essentially and basically equivalent to indicating the language, framework or algorithm your using on SO or indicating the game system your playing on RPG.
Without details like this questions become fundamentally unanswerable because there is no agreement about what constitutes a right answer.
There is a spectrum of objectivity across SE 2.0 sites. They range from hard science sites (Math, Physics, Chem) where most questions are going to be able to be objectively answerable to softer sites like Programmers and The Workplace.
Religion sites fall in the middle. there are some things that are objectively answerable and there are other things that are inherently subjective.
RPG is the same way. It's a twofold subject, it has rules and group dynamics. Rules questions are generally answerable objectively. Group dynamics questions are much more carefully considered.
Our argument here is that in general we want to focus on objectively answerable questions. Which means we want to focus on doctrines and teachings confined to specific systems.
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More subjective questions do well at times, but often devolve into bickering and arguments. We have found, over time and through much practice and trial and error that the best, most informative questions are the objective ones "what does church x teach about y" or "how does doctrine x interact with doctrine y" or "x said y, how does that interact with z".
My concern is trying to defend questions that don't match up with this. What we're asking when we ask a person to scope their question to a specific doctrine/denomination is really "did you do some research to figure out who cares about this or what aspect of this you actually care about?"
Because we want people who spend a few minutes researching their questions and trying to figure out what aspects they care about. What are they trying to learn. What's the point of their question.
I can ask "Is God Love?" but what do I learn when the answer is "yes" or "no". A much better questions might be "How does the Roman Catholic teaching on the Love of God jive with the Catholic teaching on Purgatory?"
and then show some of my reasearch on the subject and why it seems contradictory or confusing or whatever.
The bar to ask questions should be high.
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anyways @RyanFrame hows you?
"Born again" is a term most often attributed to Christians. Yet what exactly does it mean, and what does the the use of the term encompass?
What is a "born again" Christian?
Are they of a specific denomination?
Where does the term "born again" come from?
It is clear that there is little reason to doubt that the New Testament we have was really close or even exactly what what originally written.
There is a way to test the possibility of textual 'perversion' from the original texts. Historians commonly use a method called the bibliographical test....
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