but these tests do not test knowledge (all the people attempting BAR or medical license exam already have degrees). They are devised to cull and decide who "gets in", rather than test knowledge.
It is a naive assumption to think that more knowledgeable should get in it seems:). World doesn't work that way.
assumptions. The premise is "IF we had person A that knows 2 times as much as person B, a well devised test ought to score person A twice as high as person B". No one is saying that they found person A and person B, i.e. two people where they can show beyond any doubt that A knows twice as much as B, that is exactly what ideal test would do. The problem here is construction of such ideal test.
And surely it is possible to construct a test that approaches the ideal without having people A and B. All one has to know about A and B is that A will answer two times as many questions correctly, if they don't answer questions they don't know answers to. So, one can then see how to score tests to reflect that. And the answer is to penalize guessing to some degree, which will depend on the structure of the test.
What if there is no going back once you switch to GM seeds with terminator gene. Then the greedy corp may charge more for GM seed, as much as they want basically.
How long before wheat and corn disappear altogether and all we are left with is the GM version?
It is not good deeds and being good that gets you to heaven. It is a gift (grace) from God to everyone who wants to believe in his Son. The good deeds come as a consequence of accepting that gift, for you can not truly believe in the Lord and continue to do what you know is wrong.
Depending on the type of diabetes, pancreas may indeed produce more than enough insulin. However cells are not able to utilize it (it's called insulin resistance).
The other type of diabetes is when pancreas does not produce enough/any insulin.
Actually Jews and Christians do not believe in the same God, since Christians by definition believe in Christ and the Trinity. Jews do not. From Christian point of view Jews only know of one person of God, but do not acknowledge the other two.
Also, from studying Koran, the character and nature (persona if you will) of Muslim God seems to be quite different than either Christian or Jewish God, and opposite to in character than Christ in particular (e.g kill vs love your enemies).
and everything except automatic updates works (which is what I want). However, to manually update windows, you still must enable automatic updates, since updater ActiveX control checks is the service is set to run automatically and actually running.
Automatic Updates service depends on BITS, so you have to start both and change their startup type to Automatic, at least temporarily until you finish with the manual updates.
I have (an MKS) Korn Shell script that does this before I do manual updates and sets them back to disabled after the update.
Yes, it's less plausible since it is a "competing" religion trying to discredit Christianity in particular, by explaining it away as a implanted memory. What about Buddhism or Islam on the other hand or did they fast forward during that part of the movie? Or perhaps Ron Hubbard didn't quite know enough about them?
And yes it is severely misused by people like Ray Kurzweil KurzweilAI.net who extend it and use it to predict that by 2020 (that's only 13 years from now!) computers will be thinking for us.
I'd be happy if computers run Vista smoothly by then instead.
By taking up arms and revenging yourself, you are in effect saying you do not believe in the just God, who will judge us based on our deeds. If you feel you have to take things in your own hands, you clearly do not believe in God.
And this is exactly why the dichotomy between "this world" and the establishment of kingdom of heaven within each one of us.
This is why Jesus says so many times to his followers and especially accusers "I am not of this world".
The word "Apostle", from the Greek apostello "to send forth", "to dispatch", has etymologically a very general sense. Apostolos (Apostle) means one who is sent forth, dispatched--in other words, who is entrusted with a mission, rather, a foreign mission. It has, however, a stronger sense than the word messenger, and means as much as a delegate. In the classical writers the word is not frequent. In the Greek version of the Old Testament it occurs once, in III Kings, xiv, 6 (cf. ibid., xii, 24). In the New Testament, on the contrary. it occurs, according to Bruder's Concordance, about eighty times, and denotes often not all the disciples of the Lord, but some of them specially called. It is obvious that our Lord, who spoke an Aramaic dialect, gave to some of his disciples an Aramaic title, the Greek equivalent of which was "Apostle". It seems to us that there is no reasonable doubt about the Aramaic word being seliah, by which also the later Jews, and probably already the Jews before Christ, denoted "those who were despatched from the mother city by the rulers of the race on any foreign mission, especially such as were charged with collecting the tribute paid to the temple service" (Lightfoot, "Galatians", London, 1896, p. 93). The word apostle would be an exact rendering of the root of the word seliah,= apostello.
It is at once evident that in a Christian sense, everyone who had received a mission from God, or Christ, to man could be called "Apostle". In fact, however, it was reserved to those of the disciples who received this title from Christ. At the same time, like other honourable titles, it was occasionally applied to those who in some way realized the fundamental idea of the name. The word also has various meanings.
* The name Apostle denotes principally one of the twelve disciples who, on a solemn occasion, were called by Christ to a special mission. In the Gospels, however, those disciples are often designated by the expressions of mathetai (the disciples) or dodeka (the Twelve) and, after the treason and death of Judas, even of hendeka (the Eleven). In the Synoptics the name Apostle occurs but seldom with this meaning; only once in Matthew and Mark. But in other books of the New Testament, chiefly in the Epistles of St. Paul and in the Acts, this use of the word is current. Saul of Tarsus, being miraculously converted, and called to preach the Gospel to the heathens, claimed with much insistency this title and its rights.
* In the Epistle to the Hebrews (iii, 1) the name is applied even to Christ, in the original meaning of a delegate sent from God to preach revealed truth to the world.
* The word Apostle has also in the New Testament a larger meaning, and denotes some inferior disciples who, under the direction of the Apostles, preached the Gospel, or contributed to its diffusion; thus Barnabas (Acts 14:4, 14), probably Andronicus and Junias (Romans 16:7), Epaphroditus (Phil., ii, 25), two unknown Christians who were delegated for the collection in Corinth (2 Corinthians 7:23). We know not why the honourable name of Apostle is not given to such illustrious missionaries as Timothy, Titus, and others who would equally merit it.
How can we spot the difference between truth revealed by the holy spirit, and lies that are said to be from the holy spirit?
On your own you can't! This is extremely important to grasp. But luckily for those who choose so, they can validate their private ideas, insights, revelations discoveries against the teachings and claims of the church Jesus founded.
Jesus preached and taught a lot of people, but revealed knowledge and insight to his chosen few (12 only), and of the 12 one was chosen to start a church (Peter the Rock). The commission of the church is exactly that, to keep guard of the truth (deposit of faith) that was revealed to it and to preach it to those who want to hear it.
Anything that will be revealed to you by a holy spirit will have already been revealed to his church (and remember much more has been revealed than has been penned down on paper. Apostol John says in his Gospel in the very last sentance "25And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.").
So, got an idea, wonder if it came from the Holy Spirit. Check with the truth keepers (i.e. the church).
Good. I'm glad we agree on this. However, the definition of apostle is a lot narrower than just people who lived in Jesus' time and saw him in person, or even people who were taught by him in person. Thousands of people fit that definition, all the multitude he has preached to, feed with a miraculous multiplication of fish and bread, he preached openly in Synagogues etc. But only 12 people were Apostles! The chosen, by Jesus, to which he said I preach to others in parables but to you I reveal the true meaning of them. Hence, there is more to being apostle than just seeing or being taught by Jesus directly. The Apostleship is indeed transfered originally from Jesus (it is really a power) and much power was given to them to do things in Jesus name. And is still being transfered to this day.
Jesus was both human and God (God incarnate), and he did pass on authority on other selected humans (only humans, not divine in any way) called apostles. He commissioned them to go out and preach the Gospel (good news of his coming) to the nations, heal sickness (including spiritual) and cast out devils...
Sounds to me like a 'progressive Christian' is someone who would rather only take the bits of the bible that they like and then make up the rest, saying God told it to them directly. It's all fine and well to receive guidance from God, but if it contradicts the bible then clearly it cannot be divine guidance
God has not abandoned the church he founded or severed the relationship he started 2000 years ago with the apostles, but it continues to this day. God still actively works in his church, clarifying and revealing truth further.
Holy spirit does not lie and reveal one truth to one person and another to someone else (we know who the father of lies is), hence one needs to validate his "revelations" with what has been revealed to the church Jesus founded.
Perhaps I should have been more precise. By Church I mean THE church that Jesus has started (and he started only one), a church that claims to be his church. Such a church must have quite a pedigree and survive the litmus test of time.
How can we possibly recognize the difference between the true word of God and lies written in his name? It seems that the two look the same.
Easy. Jesus says "My sheep know my voice". Learn the teachings of Jesus and you will spot the liar easily. Choose not to learn his words and you leave yourself open for deception.
It's somewhat like a language dialect. It's easy for the native speaker of the dialect to spot someone who is trying to fake it.
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but these tests do not test knowledge (all the people attempting BAR or medical license exam already have degrees). They are devised to cull and decide who "gets in", rather than test knowledge.
:). World doesn't work that way.
It is a naive assumption to think that more knowledgeable should get in it seems
assumptions. The premise is "IF we had person A that knows 2 times as much as person B, a well devised test ought to score person A twice as high as person B". No one is saying that they found person
A and person B, i.e. two people where they can show beyond any doubt that A knows twice as much as B, that is exactly what ideal test would do. The problem here is construction of such ideal test.
And surely it is possible to construct a test that approaches the ideal without having people A and B. All one has to know about A and B is that A will answer two times as many questions correctly, if they don't answer questions they don't know answers to. So, one can then see how to score tests to reflect that. And the answer is to penalize guessing to some degree, which will depend on the structure of the test.
Even two 30'' screens and 8 core mac pro system is sometimes not enough.
What if there is no going back once you switch to GM seeds with terminator gene. Then the greedy corp may charge more for GM seed, as much as they want basically.
How long before wheat and corn disappear altogether and all we are left with is the GM version?
Amazing how greed driven society can be so short sighted. Go ahead and destroy the world. No one it seems deserves to live anyway.
Answer to your questions is yes I would, and do actually. And by the way, you're an idiot.
to reach these conclusions? Stop animal torture and speciesism.
it sounds like in 1998. I mean I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but it has evolved a bit since then.
It is not good deeds and being good that gets you to heaven. It is a gift (grace) from God to everyone who wants to believe in his Son. The good deeds come as a consequence of accepting that gift, for you can not truly believe in the Lord and continue to do what you know is wrong.
Depending on the type of diabetes, pancreas may indeed produce more than enough insulin. However cells are not able to utilize it (it's called insulin resistance).
The other type of diabetes is when pancreas does not produce enough/any insulin.
I thought Firefox was supposed to be a lightweight browser, and now they want to ship SQL database with it?
Who has so many bookmarks that they need a relational database to manage them all?
Actually Jews and Christians do not believe in the same God, since Christians by definition believe in Christ and the Trinity. Jews do not. From Christian point of view Jews only know of one person of God, but do not acknowledge the other two.
Also, from studying Koran, the character and nature (persona if you will) of Muslim God seems to be quite different than either Christian or Jewish God, and opposite to in character than Christ in particular (e.g kill vs love your enemies).
give her cat cancer
Is that when there's a cat growing out of her chest cancer?
and everything except automatic updates works (which is what I want). However, to manually update windows, you still must enable automatic updates, since updater ActiveX control checks is the service is set to run automatically and actually running.
Automatic Updates service depends on BITS, so you have to start both and change their startup type to Automatic, at least temporarily until you finish with the manual updates.
I have (an MKS) Korn Shell script that does this before I do manual updates and sets them back to disabled after the update.
Yes, it's less plausible since it is a "competing" religion trying to discredit Christianity in particular, by explaining it away as a implanted memory. What about Buddhism or Islam on the other hand or did they fast forward during that part of the movie? Or perhaps Ron Hubbard didn't quite know enough about them?
It may be true for some schools, but for some others it sure does.
And yes it is severely misused by people like Ray Kurzweil KurzweilAI.net who extend it and use it to predict that by 2020 (that's only 13 years from now!) computers will be thinking for us. I'd be happy if computers run Vista smoothly by then instead.
How's that a commodore comeback?
Ages ago a beacon of democracy and progress and now a country I seriously would not even want to visit as a tourist any more???
By taking up arms and revenging yourself, you are in effect saying you do not believe in the just God, who will judge us based on our deeds. If you feel you have to take things in your own hands, you clearly do not believe in God.
And this is exactly why the dichotomy between "this world" and the establishment of kingdom of heaven within each one of us.
This is why Jesus says so many times to his followers and especially accusers "I am not of this world".
The word "Apostle", from the Greek apostello "to send forth", "to dispatch", has etymologically a very general sense. Apostolos (Apostle) means one who is sent forth, dispatched--in other words, who is entrusted with a mission, rather, a foreign mission. It has, however, a stronger sense than the word messenger, and means as much as a delegate. In the classical writers the word is not frequent. In the Greek version of the Old Testament it occurs once, in III Kings, xiv, 6 (cf. ibid., xii, 24). In the New Testament, on the contrary. it occurs, according to Bruder's Concordance, about eighty times, and denotes often not all the disciples of the Lord, but some of them specially called. It is obvious that our Lord, who spoke an Aramaic dialect, gave to some of his disciples an Aramaic title, the Greek equivalent of which was "Apostle". It seems to us that there is no reasonable doubt about the Aramaic word being seliah, by which also the later Jews, and probably already the Jews before Christ, denoted "those who were despatched from the mother city by the rulers of the race on any foreign mission, especially such as were charged with collecting the tribute paid to the temple service" (Lightfoot, "Galatians", London, 1896, p. 93). The word apostle would be an exact rendering of the root of the word seliah,= apostello.
It is at once evident that in a Christian sense, everyone who had received a mission from God, or Christ, to man could be called "Apostle". In fact, however, it was reserved to those of the disciples who received this title from Christ. At the same time, like other honourable titles, it was occasionally applied to those who in some way realized the fundamental idea of the name. The word also has various meanings.
* The name Apostle denotes principally one of the twelve disciples who, on a solemn occasion, were called by Christ to a special mission. In the Gospels, however, those disciples are often designated by the expressions of mathetai (the disciples) or dodeka (the Twelve) and, after the treason and death of Judas, even of hendeka (the Eleven). In the Synoptics the name Apostle occurs but seldom with this meaning; only once in Matthew and Mark. But in other books of the New Testament, chiefly in the Epistles of St. Paul and in the Acts, this use of the word is current. Saul of Tarsus, being miraculously converted, and called to preach the Gospel to the heathens, claimed with much insistency this title and its rights.
* In the Epistle to the Hebrews (iii, 1) the name is applied even to Christ, in the original meaning of a delegate sent from God to preach revealed truth to the world.
* The word Apostle has also in the New Testament a larger meaning, and denotes some inferior disciples who, under the direction of the Apostles, preached the Gospel, or contributed to its diffusion; thus Barnabas (Acts 14:4, 14), probably Andronicus and Junias (Romans 16:7), Epaphroditus (Phil., ii, 25), two unknown Christians who were delegated for the collection in Corinth (2 Corinthians 7:23). We know not why the honourable name of Apostle is not given to such illustrious missionaries as Timothy, Titus, and others who would equally merit it.
How can we spot the difference between truth revealed by the holy spirit, and lies that are said to be from the holy spirit?
On your own you can't! This is extremely important to grasp. But luckily for those who choose so, they can validate their private ideas, insights, revelations discoveries against the teachings and claims of the church Jesus founded.
Jesus preached and taught a lot of people, but revealed knowledge and insight to his chosen few (12 only), and of the 12 one was chosen to start a church (Peter the Rock). The commission of the church is exactly that, to keep guard of the truth (deposit of faith) that was revealed to it and to preach it to those who want to hear it.
Anything that will be revealed to you by a holy spirit will have already been revealed to his church (and remember much more has been revealed than has been penned down on paper. Apostol John says in his Gospel in the very last sentance "25And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.").
So, got an idea, wonder if it came from the Holy Spirit. Check with the truth keepers (i.e. the church).
Good. I'm glad we agree on this. However, the definition of apostle is a lot narrower than just people who lived in Jesus' time and saw him in person, or even people who were taught by him in person. Thousands of people fit that definition, all the multitude he has preached to, feed with a miraculous multiplication of fish and bread, he preached openly in Synagogues etc. But only 12 people were Apostles! The chosen, by Jesus, to which he said I preach to others in parables but to you I reveal the true meaning of them. Hence, there is more to being apostle than just seeing or being taught by Jesus directly. The Apostleship is indeed transfered originally from Jesus (it is really a power) and much power was given to them to do things in Jesus name. And is still being transfered to this day.
Jesus was both human and God (God incarnate), and he did pass on authority on other selected humans (only humans, not divine in any way) called apostles. He commissioned them to go out and preach the Gospel (good news of his coming) to the nations, heal sickness (including spiritual) and cast out devils...
Sounds to me like a 'progressive Christian' is someone who would rather only take the bits of the bible that they like and then make up the rest, saying God told it to them directly. It's all fine and well to receive guidance from God, but if it contradicts the bible then clearly it cannot be divine guidance
God has not abandoned the church he founded or severed the relationship he started 2000 years ago with the apostles, but it continues to this day. God still actively works in his church, clarifying and revealing truth further.
Holy spirit does not lie and reveal one truth to one person and another to someone else (we know who the father of lies is), hence one needs to validate his "revelations" with what has been revealed to the church Jesus founded.
Perhaps I should have been more precise. By Church I mean THE church that Jesus has started (and he started only one), a church that claims to be his church. Such a church must have quite a pedigree and survive the litmus test of time.
How can we possibly recognize the difference between the true word of God and lies written in his name? It seems that the two look the same.
Easy. Jesus says "My sheep know my voice". Learn the teachings of Jesus and you will spot the liar easily. Choose not to learn his words and you leave yourself open for deception.
It's somewhat like a language dialect. It's easy for the native speaker of the dialect to spot someone who is trying to fake it.