@Pavel: Thanks for the valiant effort to fix the formatting on this answer. Unfortunately I've had to delete it and I thought I'd give you a heads up to spot this issue in the future. Usually when you see an answer like that where an obviously detailed text has lost all of it's paragraph breaks as well as other formatting that it looks like it could need, it's a good indication that it is copy/pasted from somewhere else.
The question then becomes, was it written by the OP in some other program and copy/pasted or was it straight plagiarized off of the internet somewhere. In the case of the answer you fixed, it was a straight rip off of this watchtower article.
I left another comment explaining to the OP the rules about plagiarism, but I thought I'd let you know what happened to it too. We like to see sources referenced, but not ripped off.
Either way I'm having a hard time connecting it to Christianity. He already knows the corpus of material in the bible on polygyny. The "why" there isn't a different corpus isn't a very solid question either.
Finally, somebody other than me gets to be the close-monster.
Let's see: mod closures this month by Caleb: 15. Everybody else put together: 6.
@waxeagle A good sign something needs fixing. At least everybody was THINKING about what was wrong with the question not just jumping on a vote band-wagon. I like that.
Seriously though I won't be surprised with a mutiny comes to light at election time.
@waxeagle Too sick for that. I struggled with my kindle most of the time, reading to keep my mind off the pain. When I did get back online my phone was about all I had for a few days. Most of my SE mod work has been mobile the last month or so.
@waxeagle Ya, I'm wondering when/where we need to do that arguing. I sure hope we get a heads up and can talk to the crew before they just fire up an election.
The multiple perspectives is important esp with as many theological rifts as we cover, so is being able to pass off problem issues to another mod if/when they turn personal. 3 doesn't give you that option in most cases given our level of involvement.
This question could be a poster child for what we learned about NOT doing truth questions.
My majority view "no" answer drown out the interesting fact that a couple groups claim "yes". And frankly answering the "yes/no" question is only useful to somebody who hasn't made up their mind on the matter, which just as frankly, isn't our job to fix. I need to revise my answer to explain how that question fits into the big picture.
@JonEricson @waxeagle I'm not sure if you cleaned up many of them, but I retagged a few and I think that most holy tag can probably be nuked. Need more things tagged theodicy I think.
@PeterTurner I've removed a few that were clearly just added to have another tag. I plan to remove more a little at a time for as long as it takes. (And we all need to be on the lookout for new questions with bad tags.)
The Bible pretty clearly says not to murder (Exodus 20:13).
But if we examine Numbers 25 or 1Kings 18:40, we see God (or more accurately, his prophets) telling us to kill people. Indeed, entire groups of people were murdered because of their mistaken beliefs.
So, is it alright to murder if God...
@JonEricson yeah, can't @waxeagle do some magic and make it all go away? I guess I don't know the ins and outs of the moderator panel... I just patched up the singletons because I wanted to make sure there's weren't any untagged things.
@JonEricson A large degree of uniformity in doctrinal thinking is to be expected of the Witnesses, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them reference Watchtower material frequently. But they don't. They plagiarise it without reference (and often never even mention that they're coming from a JW perspective). And I don't know why that is.
I personally know Witnesses (including both my parents) who could, if they wanted, be excellent contributors to this site. But it seems we only get the other sort.
There a number of biblical passages (like Corinthians 4:9) that are worded as such indicating angels were created separately from and and are different from humans.
From time to time I hear someone talking about their deceased love-one being an angel in heaven. I see this in works of fiction o...
Perhaps what your father meant was that Judaism does not believe that the soul of a person becomes an angel after his death, a belief prevalent in other religions. Rather, an angel is G-d's creation through which He interacts with the physical universe.
As to why He created angels, you may open...
Re: nothing in particular:
Vampires don't appear in mirrors because they have no souls. Your soul dwells in the mirror. (This is also why mirrors should be covered after a death in the family, and why breaking a mirror brings seven years' bad luck.) So now we're left with a theological question about the transport of souls. — TRiGJun 23 at 23:37
@waxeagle Inside. Heat is on, but it's a cold day for single-glazing.
Dolores is 83 and has children scattered across the globe. Her London children are on holiday in Cyprus. She flew over to London, and then went to Cyprus with them. I'm house-sitting.
When she comes back from Cyprus in December, she'll travel to Edinburgh to visit her family there, then fly to Canada. Her Canadian family will then take her with them on their holiday to Cuba.
So I'll be here till mid-January. And my only expense is nuts for the bird-feeder.
@waxeagle Yup. And I like living alone. (Did it before when my parents went to China for six months and I was house-sitting their place. They'll need to find a different house-sitter for their upcoming trip to Mombassa.)
But this is an old and poorly-built house. A bit damp, and rather chilly. And I'm economical with the oil. I'd probably feel warmer if I ate something. I have food in the fridge left over from the other night; I just need to heat it. Should probably go do that now.
@waxeagle I find I'm much more inclined to use a kitchen when I'm living alone. In a shared house, even one with good kitchen facilities, I tend to rely on take-aways.
@waxeagle Couldn't cope with that. Can't drive, and don't really want to. So I need to be within walking distance of shops and work. I love being in the middle of nowhere, but I couldn't live there.
@TRiG yeah not driving isn't really an option in the US unless you live in a very big city
but yeah I kind of love living in the middle of nowhere. I went to school on a mountain and we've stayed in the same general area since we got married. just the nearest gas station from home is a good 10-15 minute drive for me.
@waxeagle Not including LA. (But public transportation is getting better and some neighborhoods are more biking/walking friendly than others. I've got a friend who's car died and is getting by bumming rides on occasion.)
@JonEricson yeah, it seriously depends on which city you are in. NYC I wouldn't want a car, about anywhere else I'd get one even if I didn't drive a lot
@waxeagle There's houses in rural Ireland where the driveway opens onto a busy road with no footpaths. It's unsafe to leave the garden gate except by car. I'd feel horribly locked-in living in a place like that.
(Ireland has a far more scattered population pattern than the UK. Rural Britain is villages surrounded by farms. In Ireland, it's a lot more common to have one-off houses in the middle of nowhere, sometimes on small country lanes, sometimes on arterial roads.)
@TRiG things are varied widely here. I live in an area that is mostly singleton houses or a few houses clustered, but we don't have any shops nearby, but we do have some more small town "mainstreet USA" type towns nearby
@TRiG I don't know man, it's the darnedest thing but it's pretty solid trend. We did have ONE exception a while back, a JW guy gave a decent custom answer. Unfortunately even with cajoling in he hasn't been back.
@TRiG I was hoping my question would give some clues, but it really turned up nothing.
@JonEricson I'm not sure if that's a symptom of relentless logic or rotten hermeneutics.
@waxeagle Don't remind me :) I noticed about an hour ago I couldn't see a single star. (11pm) Also I have an 8" dob packed up somewhere on another continent that hasn't seen starlight in almost a decade. Sad.
The Bible pretty clearly says not to murder (Exodus 20:13).
But if we examine Numbers 25 or 1Kings 18:40, we see God (or more accurately, his prophets) telling us to kill people. Indeed, entire groups of people were murdered because of their mistaken beliefs.
So, is it alright to murder if God...
Perhaps what your father meant was that Judaism does not believe that the soul of a person becomes an angel after his death, a belief prevalent in other religions. Rather, an angel is G-d's creation through which He interacts with the physical universe.
As to why He created angels, you may open...
