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formermav43

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  1. Umm, once Altuve is healthy, it's the same lineup that just won the World Series except subbing in Jose Abreu for the corpse of Yuli Gurriel. So it's not exactly the same, it's better there. We'll see how the pitching shakes out.
  2. The only hate I have is for this artificial “rivalry.”
  3. Well you’re thinking like Dusty, at any rate.
  4. They insisted Opening Day. But I guess technically they didn’t specify what year.
  5. Well last night, it was because Meyers had a better chance of hitting Cease’s fastball. Because gut feeling. Tonight, I’m sure there’s an equally well-reasoned explanation.
  6. It's a distinction that Christians might be kind of interested in. It's kind of what this thread is all about (at least initially).
  7. I know they have a lot more tools to analyze this than we do, but the publicly available metrics all say McCormick is more than adequate defensively.
  8. Not as open as spots 3-5 in the Yankees rotation.
  9. You could just leave it at Brantley.
  10. Gotcha. That makes sense now rereading it, but for some reason I thought at first you were talking about 3 different players, not 2.
  11. That’s the same guy. Who are you referring to?
  12. Sounds like you’re right if you listen to that video, except they want Lee to play everyday in AAA instead of ride the pine. Which explains Salazar (who?)
  13. I mean, it’s not like they will just change the lineup if it doesn’t work.
  14. If it’s not for more than three years, we might as well not hire him. That’s cutting him off at the knees before he even starts. And why would he sign that with other major schools looking at him? But I don’t believe we’d do that.
  15. None of those guys add any value whatsoever. Over the last 3 seasons, for instance, those 3 guys have combined for 1.3 total fWAR. I see no reason to add spare parts from other teams rather than just rolling with what’s in the organization. You can’t be any more worthless, even if you completely suck.
  16. Every sentence in this post is wrong.
  17. That’s why textual criticism is important. You can’t just “change a few lines here and there” without leaving a trail.
  18. I think there’s some misconceptions out there about how translations work. It’s not as if we don’t have thousands upon thousands of Greek manuscripts, some dating backing to the early 2nd/even late 1st century. There are complete copies of the NT as early as the 4th century. The disagreements between these are usually matters of spelling, a word omitted here or there, a line skipped-basic human error. There are a few places where a verse or even a paragraph might appear in one manuscript and not another, but even these are nearly all insignificant. With the tools of textual criticism, we have a good idea of what the text originally said 99% of the time. And working from a common critical Greek text, no one is then just making up a translation out of whole cloth or anything. Most differences in various versions relate to how literal vs. functional the translation philosophy is. That said, there actually is one key issue in this verse that you’ll see reflected in those versions, and they both are good translations of the Greek: “All Scripture is God-breathed…” is most common; but it’s also possible to render it “Every Scripture breathed out by God is…” The former makes a statement about the nature of Scripture itself; the latter could be construed as saying the “God-breathed” Scripture is useful, but you have to separate that from the rest. So it kind of cuts to the heart of the issue you guys were discussing.
  19. Ironically, you sound just like someone on the Religious Right here.
  20. I do not vote. I think I've talked about that before on this board (or one of it's predecessors), so I won't write an extended theological defense of that right now; maybe later, it there's more interest or I have more time than I have at the moment. Partly that is practical, for reasons you seem to grasp yourself, in trying to conscientiously support either major party; partly it allows me to maintain what you might call a "prophetic distance" and be critical, like I talked about before, without anyone being able to dismiss me as a partisan. But mostly it is because I am deeply mistrustful of the church trying to co-opt the state to try and accomplish its goals. I think that misconstrues both our mission and our method. But we do not often think about that critically, because we think as Americans first and Christians second. More to the point, I see a pretty standard false dilemma at work in some of what you said (and in Brisket's response, for instance). Political activism in a conventional sense and withdrawal are not our only two options. How is that being "in the world but not of the world?" The former looks pretty worldly; the latter is not in the world in any meaningful sense. But what if we really tried to live like Jesus as a community? As Stanley Hauerwas so profoundly put it, "The church does not have a social strategy; the church is a social strategy." We are supposed to be an alternative polis; "Jesus is Lord" was a radical political statement in the first century world. But it's much easier to try to compel people than it is to walk the way of the cross.
  21. That’s not really true if you go back to the first page or so. But this thread has predictably devolved into the same tired talking points of every other religion thread. And it’s not just because of the “religious” people. #bothsides for real though
  22. Only on every thread about religion on the internet ever. You didn’t mention the “sky daddy” though, so you don’t get full marks.
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