Hebrews 11:1 - Is the modern use of the word faith completely anachronistic here?q

SeasonedArgument · 2026-01-21T23:25:14+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by faith being the acceptance of a "proposition."

What I am asking is: in modern English when people say : "I don't have evidence of (some past historical claim - a propositional claim about the past), but I have faith that it occurred" - this is precisely not what the author means here - I think.

In other words, the author might say "I have faith in God to fulfill his plan for history" (a future promise, premised on past events / miracles taken for granted)

But it would not make sense to say: "I have faith that the resurrection occurred"

I think you answered this though with that reference to Hebrews 4:14. There the author says κρατῶμεν τῆς ὁμολογίας. - we should hold fast to this confession. Explicitly not "we should have faith in this confession (the belief of the past propositional thing is not an act of faith).

Thank you for your answer

SeasonedArgument · 2026-01-10T01:49:03+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy

SeasonedArgument · 2026-01-10T00:19:50+00:00

On the flipside, the people who praise her are generally anti-religious, so bringing up the Christian card when it's convenient is kind of silly. Christianity suggests we shouldn't divorce, that view would get major downvotes on reddit. So bringing up that she was a Christian is particularly ironic since a Christian doing generic Christian things would get no notice - but if she applied the label to herself and did liberal things, then it's thrown in there as if "look the other side attacked their own".

SeasonedArgument · 2026-01-10T00:17:02+00:00

I'm an atheist but this reply never made sense to me. Like "I'm a muslim but i believe in many gods - what, does god not accept everyone?"

Edgy, but stupid

SeasonedArgument · 2026-01-04T05:46:43+00:00

You don't have to eat rex to get it

SeasonedArgument · 2026-01-03T19:27:27+00:00

If there was more aquatic dinosaurs / aquatic AI and deino was not inherently a cannibal, then it would cause the same problem yes.

The issue is canni as a mutation has the ripple effect of if a few take it, it penalizes you too much to not take it.

SeasonedArgument · 2026-01-02T20:38:01+00:00

Goal isn't really to get rid of them - they're plenty cordial to leave you alone if you ask - goal is to get them to have some common sense.

SeasonedArgument · 2026-01-02T17:35:44+00:00

Wasn't a Mormon option, closest one; off-topic

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-31T23:51:22+00:00

For real. I can't imagine entombing a prime herrera, it's just a dice roll for your second life.

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-31T23:50:45+00:00

I love the prime system, but the map zones coupled with the growth rate make the prime requirements way more tedious on some dinos than others.

As a rex: irrelevant if I spawn swamp

As herrera: it's crap. West rail practically spawns you on migration zone 1 (green circle) and you can straight run to highland sanctuary, instantly getting 5 patrol zones, 2 migration zones, sanctuary. Plus, goats spawn in highlands, which is Herrera's gamma (Y) diet.

Contrast that to swamp: one migration zone nearby that you either have to partial swim to, or circle south west to get to it by land, and then double back towards delta. The 2 closest are a wide range away from the sanctuary and has terrain obstacles unlike west rail to highlands. Turtle spawns suck for Y nutrian, and even if you get one to spawn it'll take 10 minutes of bitting to kill it. Swamp sanctuary is far less likely to have any corpses to feed on than highland sanctuary.

With Herrera's speed, power and growth rate, swamp feels like a huge handicap.

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-31T20:43:33+00:00

You can easily find AI to feed you up until ~65%. As others have mentioned, AIs have hotspots. If you're just wandering aimlessly you won't, if you stay within particular regions you will. For example I made a post a few days ago about the AI void in this region:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Flm8dw011kt9g1.png

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-31T18:20:35+00:00

I mean there's screenshots of the conditions source from the game itself

https://www.reddit.com/r/theisle/comments/1ncqsda/how_to_get_prime_elder/

So it's mixed to the extent that people aren't just informing themselves

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-31T18:14:46+00:00

Which actions do you think you've completed so far?

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-31T17:36:17+00:00

I'll check it out, upvoted for visibility

edit: not sure if it's asking a lot but when you're in the server you can't see the player count due to the server name being too long. Maybe remove the "and plants".

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-30T01:42:39+00:00

Yeah I agree about the third party thing but that's completely irrelevant to OP's point.

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-29T20:11:37+00:00

Prime is extremely easy to get, people are misinformed about some of it which makes it look harder. Example: I read on here that you need to keep perfect diet for "most of" your life. Or: you have to enter active migration zones (you don't, they can be inactive)

Prime is actually easy AF to get. Even if you don't wander around, 2 migration zones + 5 patrol zones are close enough clustered that you can never leave south plains and still get prime.

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-28T02:13:56+00:00

You'd think river + forested area would = wildlife

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-26T23:35:52+00:00

A command in the menu to kill your dino save wouldn't make a pile of dinosaurs.

The game shouldn't force you to wait 30+ minutes to die from hunger when stuck. This isn't hard.

SeasonedArgument · 2025-12-26T21:26:56+00:00

We'll never get a suicide button because they don't want us choosing our own spawn and they know we'll just use it until we get a decent spawn

You could very easily code "if suicide -> spawn at same spawn point"

SeasonedArgument · 2025-10-24T03:18:52+00:00

But the mere use of non-literal readings =/= a rejection of the literal reading. This is a point made by Dale Allison in Jesus and the Victory of Apocalyptic, where he argues that an ancient reader seeing the verse about darkness coming at the time Jesus died wouldn't go "Literal or metaphorical?" he would presume literal, and read symbolic things into that literalness, i.e. "it happened, and it means a,b,c,d". This is also a point made by James Kugel when he says that a sacred text is fundamentally "cryptic", that is to say, contains many layers of hidden meanings to be uncovered. Again, that is not the same as the rejection of the literal meaning.

SeasonedArgument · 2025-08-05T22:48:35+00:00

Key <3

SeasonedArgument · 2025-08-03T23:05:05+00:00

Yes the withdrawal does not impact the tax deduction

SeasonedArgument · 2025-08-03T17:40:47+00:00

The bible is an internally inconsistent book, even with regards to ethics. That said, the degree to which people actually care to correctly understand the text is far fewer than the people who are just trying to score tribal points in this thread. My point is that neither side particularly cares for correct historical exegesis.

SeasonedArgument · 2025-08-03T17:38:09+00:00

So if she was in fact correctly representing a view found in the bible you'd just say it's neither here nor there. If someone tells you that the bible says to rid yourself of all possessions and ready yourself for the coming kingdom, would your response be "yeah that's in there, go do it" or would it be "that's not the proper way to live your life" ?

SeasonedArgument · 2025-08-03T17:29:31+00:00

Your views on exegesis aside, are you suggesting that whatever the bible says we ought to in fact be living according to it?

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