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9:00 PM

@JonathonByrd You can't ping him in chat, he's never been in here. You have to drop a comment to somewhere he's participated on the main site. But like I just suggested I don't think that's his issue here.

Jonathon Byrd

oh well..

Caleb

@JonathonByrd Good answer though, it just got my last vote of the day....saved in case of emergencies. I'm about to quit for the night so it might as well go to a good home.

Jonathon Byrd

haha

Caleb

I wish overflow rep past the rep-cap could be used to offer bounties on other people's questions. Wouldn't that be a fair way to give back to the community?

Flimzy

Hmm

then I'd be offering 5 bounties per day

and the bounty page would be busier than the non-bounty page

(okay, so I exaggerated a little bit)

I'd probably only have 1-3 questions worth of overflow rep per day

Richard

9:04 PM

@Caleb That would be so very nice.

Jonathon Byrd

@caleb, you want to help me add some bounty to my latest question?

Q: Why is Jesus called the Truth?

Multiple times in the Bible Jesus declares that He is the Truth, or that He is on the side of Truth. John 14:6 NIV Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 18:37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus ans...

nature-of-god

Caleb

@JonathonByrd If it doesn't real in a good answer, sure ;)

Jonathon Byrd

@caleb you should throw some bounty on there anyway lol

Caleb

@Richard ... quick you need to edit that comment to ping chad....

Richard

How do I do that?!

(kind of a newb to chat.)

Caleb

9:13 PM

@Richard Not in chat, here: christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/2277/…

You hare 1.5 minutes :)

Richard

How do you ping someone? (I presume that asks them to move to chat?)

C. Ross

@Richard you put @<username>

it doesn't work if they haven't been to chat recently

Caleb

@Richard No I was just meaning on the site that when you comment you have to @.... in order for them to get a notification that you replied. In this case I got the notification because I own the question but chad didn't.

Yes, like that :)

Richard

OH, I see what you mean. Right.

I figured he was probably watching...

Caleb

As much content as is being batted around I'm missing stuff when I AM pinged!

@Flimzy Flimzy it's a good thing you didn't ask that question on meta!!! Look at the voting pattern. If this was meta half of the site would be saying the consider god unjust!

Flimzy

9:27 PM

So DJClayworth seems to have a valid point...

SE's stated goal is to promote expert-level questions

but we keep asking basic questions as a basis for avoiding/closing other arguments.

Does this mean that basic questions are a necessary evil? Or that the arguments need to be addressed in some other way?

+4 / -4... nice

dancek

9:42 PM

mmm, I'm so gonna get Enlightened christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/2229/…

dancek

10:02 PM

@Caleb very nice setup in the unjust judge question. Reminded me of G.K. Chesterton (who is one of my favorite authors)

Caleb

@dancek Thanks. Some credit has to go to some preachers I listen to occasionally that have set a similar stage in sermons.

I've caught quite a bit of grief for that question tho.

And Chesterton is a lot of fun.

Pure genius with English and argument.

Not so good on all his theology but well worth reading to keep the brain juices lively.

I'm pretty sure orthodoxy is the most underlined book in my Kindle. Half the time I wanted to squeal with joy at the wording and arguments, some other portion of the time I wanted to throw it out the window. Not bad for a piece of literature.

The Ball and the Cross has to be my favorite tho...

dancek

@Caleb afaict at first he was not very theologically oriented at all, but wrote just based on, well, Chestertonian common sense. Later on he turned Catholic, which should be enough to make any protestant squirm a bit :)

@Caleb haven't read that, gotta pick it up sometime

Caleb

"The cross cannot be defeated, for it is Defeat."

The entire book is one huge argument played out in alternating dialogue and good old fashioned sword duel between an atheist and a Christian.

"That is the only real question-- whether the Church is really madder than the world. Let the rationalists run their own race, and let us see where they end."

"We cannot trust the ball to be always a ball; we cannot trust reason to be reasonable. In the end the great terrestrial globe will go quite lop-sided, and only the cross will stand upright."

El'endia Starman

10:19 PM

@Caleb: ooo...sounds like an interesting read...

dancek

So how well is Chesterton known in the English speaking areas? For some reason I don't understand, none of his non-fiction books have been translated to Finnish, and so no one knows about him in these parts.

@Caleb I'll really have to pick it up sometime :)

Caleb

I think he's sort of a name everybody knows from quotes (he's very quotable) but not that many people have actually read. Sort of a legend, adored by a few, spurned by others, but out of the league of the non-reading public.

@dancek I don't it was the fact that he turned Catholic that bothered me so much as his use of the reformation of a scape-goat when he needed a good villain or something to blame.

dancek

@Caleb I figured something like that. Here, the few Catholics (~0.1% of population) seem to mostly recognize the name, but I haven't met a single non-Catholic that had heard about him.

Caleb

Of course the reformation had some pretty serious issues that nobody should be proud of, but the things he picked on where not those issues.

dancek

@Caleb I don't quite understand. I thought even Catholics recognize the reformation as good (though it happened the wrong way); the Council of Trent (at the time of reformation) took the hint and really changed the course of the Catholic Church for the better.

Caleb

10:29 PM

@dancek Somebody forgot to let G.K.C. in on the secret :)

dancek

My understanding might be due to the fact that Catholics are a very small minority here, in a mostly-Lutheran country. They certainly don't want to be stepping on other people's toes where they can avoid it.

Flimzy

I don't think the Catholics here (which are 90%+ of the population) would consider the reformation good

Caleb

@dancek That might be a really good question tho ... what affect did the reformation have on the Catholic church?

Flimzy

although I've never actually asked them about the reformation

El'endia Starman

This one has been unanswered for the entirety of the site. o.O

Q: What is the origin of the tripartite division of the law?

I ran across this series of blog posts: http://maelandcindy.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-mosaic-law-tripartite.html http://maelandcindy.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-mosaic-law-tripartite-historical.html http://maelandcindy.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-mosaic-law-tripartite-analyzing.html http://maelandcindy.b...