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Why should people avoid asking what 'the truth' is on C.SE?
Why should people avoid asking what 'the truth' is on C.SE?
Each denomination believes they are right and teach the truth. In reality, this is impossible for a site like our to know what the truth is. ...
Ken GrahamMod
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Why should people avoid asking what 'the truth' is on C.SE?
If this site were RomanCatholicism.SE, or LDS.SE, or dedicated to some other very specific denomination, then “the truth” would be well defined and asking whether something is true would be ...
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Was the circumcision question put on hold for valid reason?
I think it is a question answerable from scripture with no need to interject opinion.
This is a common misunderstanding, but answering anything from scripture requires interpretation and some degree ...
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Was the circumcision question put on hold for valid reason?
When it comes to questions of "why", there is essentially no such thing as a purely objective scriptural question because Scripture can be and is interpreted in an extremely wide variety of ways. ...
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Does Trinitarian seem too broad to you?
Trinitarian is generally too broad in my opinion unless the question specifically address the concept of the Trinity.
If the question asks him Trinitarians address the theory of evolution, that's ...
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Does Trinitarian seem too broad to you?
Question scope is not limited to just groups that have some authority in place. Any doctrinal position can function to define the scope of a question. What types of questions this is appropriate for ...
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What if we assume that questions of the form "Is X true" mean "What does denomination Y say about X" for all Y?
Note that on PPCG questions are either explicitly popularity contests, or the competition is won according to the objective rules as adjudicated by the catalogue snippet while the voting is for ...
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What if we assume that questions of the form "Is X true" mean "What does denomination Y say about X" for all Y?
This was tried in the early days of the site. The result makes a mockery of the SE voting system. Instead of the most informative, useful, and high quality answer content getting voted to the top the ...
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Does Trinitarian seem too broad to you?
Answer take 2. Because I missed the point the first time around.
This meta post seems to have gotten started of all the wrong foot by ⓐ talking about the problem being whether the topic was too bread ...
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Why should people avoid asking what 'the truth' is on C.SE?
For what it's worth, to add some context to the other excellent answers, we removed the "Truth Question" close reason in favor of just one general philosophical close reason. I didn't think ...
Peter TurnerMod
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Why should people avoid asking what 'the truth' is on C.SE?
There IS an absolute truth (John 8:32) ...
I would like to supplement @KenGraham's and @RayButterworth's answers by proposing how this site can work for new Christians like yourself who should be ...
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Which "no-tradition-specified" exegesis questions should be closed?
So my perspective is that there are several levels of interpretation. It's hard to split them, up, but here is my go:
Word definitions, syntax questions (ex. what does the crazy old-timey KJV syntax ...
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Which "no-tradition-specified" exegesis questions should be closed?
All exegetical questions less than 60 days old which have no tradition specified should be flagged for a moderator requesting that they be moved to the Hermeneutics Stack Exchange if they are on-topic ...
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Which "no-tradition-specified" exegesis questions should be closed?
Building on curiousdannii's answer, let me suggest the following guideline:
All non-trivial exegesis questions must specifically ask for the view of a particular Christian tradition or denomination, ...
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