New Answers to Old Questions

3:37 AM

I'd like to point out that it doesn't have to be self-promotion. If you see a goodie from a newbie, then you can post it here to showcase it.

For context for other readers:

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A: How can we encourage high-quality new answers to old questions?

I have created a chat room for the purpose of promoting new answers to old questions: http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26215/new-answers-to-old-questions I'm proposing the following guidelines: Anyone is welcome to join Users share links to new, high-quality answers that they write in resp...

This is why we have this room.

@Nathaniel You should probably put the meta post link in the room description.

Nathaniel

11:14 AM

room topic changed to New Answers to Old Questions: Promote the high-quality answers you give to old questions, and review those of others. In particular: 1) post links to your answers of old (30 days+) questions. 2) Review the posts of others, and vote on them as appropriate. For more info, see meta (no tags)

room topic changed to New Answers to Old Questions: Promote the high-quality answers you give to old questions, and review those of others. In particular: 1) post links to your answers of old (30 days+) questions. 2) Review the posts of others, and vote on them as appropriate. For more info, see meta. (no tags)

room topic changed to New Answers to Old Questions: Promote the high-quality answers you give to old questions, and review those of others. In particular: 1) post links to your answers of old (30 days+) questions. 2) Review the posts of others, and vote on them as appropriate. For more info, see meta: meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/a/4640 (no tags)

@fredsbend Done; thanks for the suggestion.

Nathaniel

11:33 AM

room topic changed to New Answers to Old Questions: Promote the high-quality answers given to old questions, and review those of others. In particular: 1) post links to answers (your own or otherwise) of old (30 days+) questions. 2) Review the posts of others, and vote on them as appropriate. For more info, see meta: meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/a/4640 (no tags)

ThaddeusB

7:46 PM

This is a great idea.

To engage in somw shameless self-promotion, I think a great example (except it is on the BH SE, not the Christianity SE) of this would be My post on the question of "unicorns" in the Bible. This is a very popular question (2nd most upvoted on BH), yet somehow no previous answer reflected the most probable (according to scholars) animal intended by the Biblical writer.

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A: Does the Bible mention unicorns?

Interestingly, despite there being several good answers here, no one has yet raised the possibility that the word ראם (re'em) refers to an animal known as the aurochs or urus (Bos primigenius). Around the turn of the twentieth century (i.e. 1900), the Akkadian cognate word rimu was discovered....

Nathaniel

10:03 PM

@ThaddeusB That's what this is for, thanks!

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A: How do Calvinists interpret 2 Peter 1:10?

Calvinists from Calvin to the present day have interpreted this verse as relating to man's assurance, not God's will. John Calvin specifically responds to those who say this verse implies that the "stability of our calling and election depends on good works," saying: [P]urity of life is no...

This one is my own -- the two previous answers do not cite any Calvinists, even though the Calvinist viewpoint is the specifically asked for.

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