Until this year have used the New American Bible (NAB) for my Religious Ed. class.
Now, we've got a New American Bible Revised Edition (NABRE).
How long is a bible New and how long is a bible Revised and can this continue for ever?
Will bible translators ever just break down and use the Googl...
Clearly and unmistakably, this site is about and for Christianity. However, recently, I saw an answer that was quoting (and solely related to) the Qur'an.
Per this meta post, we seem to have a consensus that "self-declaration" is the definition of "Christian".
However, what about religions a...
@Richard I'm still torn on upvoting the 10 commandments Q form compman....I finally did, but I really chafe about him getting rep for reposting the exact question from the definition with no further content.
@waxeagle That's very understandable. I edited the question to include more content as it seems pretty clear that the question isn't going to be closed and in its previous form was a really poor quality question.
I'm just going through all the old stuff at this point.
The question itself isn't bad. But clearly the lack of effort on the part of the asker should not have garnished a +17 with a simple copy/paste.
That worked in early beta, but as we mature, that's not going to fly anymore.
@waxeagle Yeah. One thing I find so interesting on this site is that people who post horrible quality answers can actually post fascinating questions. This can lead to trolls with 300+ rep, oddly.
@CiscoIPPhone worth noting (though this isn't enough for an answer) that some folks have expanded the "yoke" verse to include entering a business partnership as well.
@waxeagle I could even see it applying to any venture where you're kind of "stuck" with a given person providing that the religious and moral beliefs could play an impact on a decision. (Traveling into space might not matter, but traveling to Mars might.)
@waxeagle Let it go. You made the point quite well in your first comment, I think anybody reading would either get the picture or not at that point.
The whole thing is a moot point, it's not going to change anything, and if they are offended at that they are going to have much bigger troubles around here.
I'm tempted to ask a question about a Christian's proper response specifically to interracial marriages banned by the gov't... as a followup to @Richard's answer... I was hoping TRiG would edit his question to get it reopened, but it seems clear he won't... And I'd like to hear more views on that.
Should I wait a few days before I do that? or what?
Hermeneutics
the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
Exegesis
critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of a text, especially of the Bible.
It seems that the hermeneutics and exegesis should alias interpretation, or vise versa. I just see these ...
The tag "bible" seems overly general to me (much the same way the tag "john" is too general)
Wait a minute... john isn't too general - it's ambiguous! There are multiple Johns. If you were arguing that we need multiple bible tags because there are multiple bibles, this would be a good compar...
@Flimzy Oh, I think TRiG was getting mad about the wording thing. That's what the meta posts, comments, etc. seemed to indicate, at least. I haven't seen anything about it today, so I think it's probably safe. Granted, I'm not the expert on peoples SE behavior. ;)
This has been a popular topic of debate, at least where I live. As Armenians, we like to...discourage marriages with spouses of a different ethnicity or nationality, simply in order to carry the culture and Armenian name for as many generations as possible.
Were there any mentions of interracial...
I think a good question would be "How did the church respond to the illegality of interracial marriages between 1870 and 19xx?" I'm curious about that.
@Richard: According to that page I quoted in my comment... "they were never married, in the eyes of the law, any Christian church, or by anyone in [southern] white society"
Although I don't know the source for their information.
And even if no church recognized these marriages, I suspect many Christians did
@Flimzy From your link "...there were many biracial churches, particularly evangelical ones, that persisted in disciplining slaves as well as whites for the sin of adultery."
off-topic... I just did some quick calculatin' and found that we have 1 meta question for every 4.5 questions on this site. That seems like a lot to me.
I think that there are fewer possible/good meta questions than main questions, so I would think that the ratio starts out high and decreases over time.
@ElendiaStarman I think for now we are better off comparing ourselves to sites with similar question volume and length of existence. Meta questions should taper off...
@a_hardin I think we were the only ones to launch that week. Bitcoin launced a week later, and DSP launced right before
as well as Lit
but none of them even get close to us on question volume or rate.
@Richard: Everyone on that site must have taken the site to heart, and become more productive than those of us here... so they're off being productive instead of arguing about zir pronouns.
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. You can read about the program here: Moderators Pro...
I'm very happy with the Pro Tem announcements. The two people I really wanted to see as mods were chosen, and the other three have been great community members, too!
Looks like my favorite church isn't getting a stack exchange site. There were lots of good questions on that proposal there, anyone want to help me ask them here?
Hey can somebody other than me re-post this. I want to accept it as the right answer and have it float to to the top so it both closes off the thread and redirects people, but since I opened the thread my answer doesn't do that.
@Flimzy I don't know. I wasn't a fan of having a multi-answer thread in the first place and I don't know what to do with it now. Do we keep adding new ones? The sort-by-vote is really hard after the first ten or so are up there. Maybe start a new thread? Maybe one thread per suggestions?
@Flimzy Those that do can post on meta no problem. But the tag synonym function has a mechanism for suggestions and voting on them anyway. Why not use that?
They main problem seemed to be that early in beta nobody had the rep to make suggestions and there were no mods to fast track it. Both of those are non issues now.
@Flimzy Creation/creationism we discussed in the mod chat room, there doesn't seem to be consensus. (I'm a dissenting voice for one) That might need a post of it's own to discuss and collect suggestions.
so I can't check to see if there are current overlapping suggestions
Well, if we don't want all the syn suggestions on the same answer, then you might want to lock that question on meta. But maybe you mods need to discuss it further first ??
Until this year have used the New American Bible (NAB) for my Religious Ed. class.
Now, we've got a New American Bible Revised Edition (NABRE).
How long is a bible New and how long is a bible Revised and can this continue for ever?
Will bible translators ever just break down and use the Googl...
Clearly and unmistakably, this site is about and for Christianity. However, recently, I saw an answer that was quoting (and solely related to) the Qur'an.
Per this meta post, we seem to have a consensus that "self-declaration" is the definition of "Christian".
However, what about religions a...
The tag "bible" seems overly general to me (much the same way the tag "john" is too general)
Wait a minute... john isn't too general - it's ambiguous! There are multiple Johns. If you were arguing that we need multiple bible tags because there are multiple bibles, this would be a good compar...
Pro Tem moderators have been announced.
Thanks for the suggestions folks, and see you all when we hold live elections!
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