My Poe Challenge

[AV1611VET]

Demonstrate your knowledge of Poe's Law by placing a winking smiley next to the statements that are not considered basic doctrine today by mainstream Christianity:

1. world-wide flood
2. flat earth
3. no death before the Fall
4. burning bush
5. Jonah and the whale
6. Daniel in the Lion's Den
7. Elijah outrunning Ahab's chariot
8. dispensation theology
9. resurrection from the dead
10. covenant theology
11. creatio ex nihilo
12. geocentrism

Remember -- if you have to ask for clarification, you fail.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Define mainstream.

If by mainstream, you mean "the majority of Christianity" worldwide, they all get a smiley.

 

[Thekla]

The majority of Christians believe the earth is flat

Never heard that ...

 

[Hans Talhoffer]

The majority of Christians believe the earth is flat

Never heard that ...

No one ever claimed it was flat. The Bible clearly mentions mountains and valleys.

 

[Psudopod]

No one ever claimed it was flat. The Bible clearly mentions mountains and valleys.

When people talk of a flat earth, they mean in the sense of non-sperical, disk shaped.

 

[Delphiki]

Demonstrate your knowledge of Poe's Law by placing a winking smiley next to the statements that are not considered basic doctrine today by mainstream Christianity:

1. world-wide flood
2. flat earth
3. no death before the Fall
4. burning bush
5. Jonah and the whale
6. Daniel in the Lion's Den
7. Elijah outrunning Ahab's chariot
8. dispensation theology
9. resurrection from the dead
10. covenant theology
11. creatio ex nihilo
12. geocentrism

Remember -- if you have to ask for clarification, you fail.

= Moderate mainstream
= Nutter fundie mainstream
= Probably not mainstream at all

As least that's how it seems to me.

 

[Hans Talhoffer]

When people talk of a flat earth, they mean in the sense of non-sperical, disk shaped.

People should express themselves more clearly

 

[Delphiki]

People should express themselves more clearly

I'd say most people know what one is talking about when they say "flat earth".

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Demonstrate your knowledge of Poe's Law by placing a winking smiley next to the statements that are not considered basic doctrine today by mainstream Christianity:

1. world-wide flood
2. flat earth
3. no death before the Fall
4. burning bush
5. Jonah and the whale
6. Daniel in the Lion's Den
7. Elijah outrunning Ahab's chariot
8. dispensation theology
9. resurrection from the dead
10. covenant theology
11. creatio ex nihilo
12. geocentrism

Remember -- if you have to ask for clarification, you fail.

None of them are accepted by mainstream Christianity, so they all get the smiley.

 

[Chris81]

Demonstrate your knowledge of Poe's Law by placing a winking smiley next to the statements that are not considered basic doctrine today by mainstream Christianity:

1. world-wide flood
2. flat earth
3. no death before the Fall
4. burning bush
5. Jonah and the whale "The bible says nothing about a whale, reread the Bible"
6. Daniel in the Lion's Den
7. Elijah outrunning Ahab's chariot -- "I don't remember this story"
8. dispensation theology
9. resurrection from the dead
10. covenant theology
11. creatio ex nihilo
12. geocentrism

Remember -- if you have to ask for clarification, you fail.

I put a winking smiley by what I consider as beliefs most outside of the mainstream. I could have included dispensational theology as being outside of mainstream but I have to admit that dispensationalist have clearly influenced many Christians in mainstream churches.

 

[Belk]

Demonstrate your knowledge of Poe's Law by placing a winking smiley next to the statements that are not considered basic doctrine today by mainstream Christianity:

1. world-wide flood
2. flat earth
3. no death before the Fall
4. burning bush
5. Jonah and the whale
6. Daniel in the Lion's Den
7. Elijah outrunning Ahab's chariot
8. dispensation theology
9. resurrection from the dead
10. covenant theology
11. creatio ex nihilo
12. geocentrism

Remember -- if you have to ask for clarification, you fail.

How on earth does that demonstrate knowledge of Poe's law? Seems it is simply you asking people to test their knowledge of what you consider to be basic doctrine.

 

[Cabal]

Couldn't we make a list of a few of the more extreme examples for a test?

Book of Job prophesying the Internet, Nepture keeps evil angels away, God's throne is a time-machine, sperm contains a heritable factor of a "sin nature", that kind of thing?

 

[LifeToTheFullest!]

Demonstrate your knowledge of Poe's Law by placing a winking smiley next to the statements that are not considered basic doctrine today by mainstream Christianity:

1. world-wide flood
2. flat earth
3. no death before the Fall
4. burning bush
5. Jonah and the whale
6. Daniel in the Lion's Den
7. Elijah outrunning Ahab's chariot
8. dispensation theology
9. resurrection from the dead
10. covenant theology
11. creatio ex nihilo
12. geocentrism

Remember -- if you have to ask for clarification, you fail.

Maybe you should start by defining what AV means by "Poe."

 

[Lord Emsworth]

No one ever claimed it was flat. The Bible clearly mentions mountains and valleys.

 

[Nathan Poe]

Couldn't we make a list of a few of the more extreme examples for a test?

Book of Job prophesying the Internet, Nepture keeps evil angels away, God's throne is a time-machine, sperm contains a heritable factor of a "sin nature", that kind of thing?

Let's not forget such nuttiness as "embedded age," "God cleaned up after the Flood for safety and sanitary reasons," and "homo sapiens do not have a sin nature."

I will say this for AV -- as far as his desperate pleas for attention go, this one is slightly more creative than most.

 

[Cabal]

Let's not forget such nuttiness as "embedded age," "God cleaned up after the Flood for safety and sanitary reasons," and "homo sapiens do not have a sin nature."

"Scientists are gifts from God but also produce demonic propaganda and will serve the antiChrist" should be on there as well.

I will say this for AV -- as far as his desperate pleas for attention go, this one is slightly more creative than most.

You would say that

 

[Nathan Poe]

"Scientists are gifts from God but also produce demonic propaganda and will serve the antiChrist" should be on there as well.

Classic.

You would say that

And I'll top it off by paraphrasing Captain Malcolm Reynolds to say that my days of not taking AV seriously have officially come to a middle.

 

[Targ]

I've got no idea what this challenge has to do with Poe's law, but I'll put a wink next to the ones which are not basic doctrine.

1. world-wide flood
2. flat earth
3. no death before the Fall
4. burning bush
5. Jonah and the whale
6. Daniel in the Lion's Den
7. Elijah outrunning Ahab's chariot
8. dispensation theology
9. resurrection from the dead
10. covenant theology
11. creatio ex nihilo
12. geocentrism

 

[Psudopod]

People should express themselves more clearly

I've never come across anyone who considered flat earth to mean no mountains etc. Everyone has always understood it as refering to the shape of the earth - disk shaped as a opposed to spherical.

 

[Targ]

I've never come across anyone who considered flat earth to mean no mountains etc. Everyone has always understood it as refering to the shape of the earth - disk shaped as a opposed to spherical.

Precisely. Presumably Hans is quite new to the debate. This should explain what everyone means when they say 'flat earth'.