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    Will Churches be closed due to coronavirus pademic?

    On the original question for this thread: our church is certainly not closing. It is, however, moving Sunday church services online.
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    Will Churches be closed due to coronavirus pademic?

    I just looked at a CDC FAQ on SARS (archived from the period when it was an issue). It says that SARS was generally spread by close contact, i.e. mostly family, etc, and when the patient is symptomatic. It appears that COVID-19 is spread before symptoms show, and not just via close contact...
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    Red Letter Christians

    I object to red letters. First, for practical reasons: The red used is typically too light, violating the contrast requirements for accessibility. Second, it emphasizes a distinction that's not present in the original. There are no quotation marks. Indeed in parts of John it's not clear where...
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    Red Letter Christians

    I agree. But it's inerrancy that is typically associated with the idea that all parts of the Bible are in some sense equal. One can believe that it's inspired in a more indirect sense and (1) think that there are differing viewpoints represented by different authors, and (2) prioritize Jesus'...
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    Will Churches be closed due to coronavirus pademic?

    My church just closed for this Sunday. It's hard to predict how long this will last. The models I've looked at suggest precautions will have to continue through the summer. Unless warm weather slows it, in which case through the fall.
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    Red Letter Christians

    There are a couple of answers. One is that it's valuing what Jesus actually said over various conclusions people have drawn that may or may not be what he intended. Another is that the Bible isn't inspired directly, but rather is human testimony to God's acts. In that case there's a difference...
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    CoronaVirus

    In NJ in order to be tested you must have symptoms and have been in contract with someone confirmed to have it, or you must have severe enough symptoms to be hospitalized. My colleague took his 22 year old daughter to the hospital last night with pneumonia and fever. They gave her antibiotics...
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    CoronaVirus

    The possible range for mortality is large, 0.5 to 2% or so. The data isn’t very good, because only people with symptoms are tested in many places.
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    Did the Catholics make up the book of 1 Maccabees out of their imagination?

    This whole discussion is so weird it's almost embarrassing to participate. The reference is probably to Luke 11:51. But that's not a list of prophets, since Abel isn't a prophet. From the Anchor Bible commentary on Luke: "This is usually understood as a reference to Zechariah the priest, the...
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    When they say that the Apocryphal books don’t belong in the Bible, who’s authority is that based on?

    Historically, the canon is primarily those books that a given church uses in worship. It hasn't normally been a formal decision, but what became customary. E.g. because the church after the first few decades were primarily Gentile, they used the standard Greek Old Testament. It included the...
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    Did the Catholics make up the book of 1 Maccabees out of their imagination?

    The reason it's absurd is that 1 Maccabees was written before the Catholic Church existed. You can argue whether it should be accepted into the canon. You can argue how accurate the history is. But it surely wasn't made up by the Catholic church, and the historians I'm aware of believe the...
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    USA Dems - Looks like Biden or Sanders?

    That's absurd. Leadership are desperate to find an alternative to Sanders without giving the impression that the party is being unfair to him.
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    USA Dems - Looks like Biden or Sanders?

    There's some evidence that people are more likely to vote for a man than a woman, though I'm not sure the bias is large. But that wasn't Warren's problem. She wasn't as inspiring as Sanders, but was too radical for people who wanted a moderate. She might actually have been a reasonable...
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    USA Dems - Looks like Biden or Sanders?

    Or perhaps most Democrats aren't actually interested in identity politics.
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    Nothing is Free

    You raise two questions, neither of which really differentiates between the current system and single-payer. You’re right that there are problems controlling resource usage with “free” systems. However insurance systems have the same problem, because you have a fixed payment, after which you...
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    Nothing is Free

    It’s true. Nothing is free. But there are various ways to pay for things. No one objects to paying for defense from taxes. It used to be that fire protection was private. If you didn’t have insurance, they’d let your house burn. We changed that many years ago. Social security doesn’t have to...
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    Why Did Jesus Die?

    I would agree with that. However Paul might not. He thought we are trapped in sin, using slavery as a metaphor. He thought the only way out of slavery was through Jesus' death and resurrection. See Rom 6. His understanding has been called the "participatory" model of the atonement, because it is...
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    Timothy Keller

    But Westminster doesn’t take a position on that. The one passage that seems relevanft to creation says that the world was created in six days.
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    Timothy Keller

    The committee whose report was accepted was unable to reach consensus on the issue of days. As I understand it, this leaves the PCA in a position of accepting the "six days" reference as not necessarily meaning 24 hour days. I don't believe Keller's views violate the PCA's understanding of...
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    Timothy Keller

    The Westminster Confession doesn't say anything about evolution. The PCA adopted a report that sort of implied that evolution wasn't true, but there's no actual official statement prohibiting it. Keller thinks that from a Biblical and confessional point of view what matters is a literal Adam and...
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