My understanding is that there is no consensus, but there are three main interpretive options:

-Refering to Self, but using a plural pronoun

-Referring to the members of the Trinity

-Referring to members of the Divine Counsel

What I’m curious about is if there are any other major interpretations and roughly how popular each interpretation is among actual scholars.

Do most scholars believe it’s a reference to the Divine Counsel or is it fairly evenly divided between various options?

Does any reputable scholar outside evangelicalism take the Trinity interpretation seriously or is that mostly considered a theological view and not a serious scholarly one?

In case you missed it, last week we started a new companion sub to r/Christian called r/AskChristian.

This new companion community is specifically built to include non-Christians, per the feedback the mod team has received from those within and outside of our current community.

We welcome you to join r/AskChristian. There are already a handful of posts awaiting your participation.

Here’s a link to the announcement from last week: https://www.reddit.com/r/Christian/s/MuPgvEPa7U

Please be sure to read the pinned ‘Welcome’ post for information about how to participate. Top Level Comment privileges are reserved to those who are active r/Christian members currently in good standing. So if you want to request the special flair needed for top level commenting, please be sure to message the r/AskChristian mod team to check your eligibility.

Thanks all!

In case you missed it, this week we started a new companion sub to r/Christian called r/AskChristian.

This new companion community is specifically built to include non-Christians, per the feedback the mod team has received from those within and outside of our current community.

We welcome you to join r/AskChristian. There are already a handful of posts awaiting your participation.

Here’s a link to the announcement from earlier this week: https://www.reddit.com/r/Christian/s/MuPgvEPa7U

Please be sure to read the pinned ‘Welcome’ post for information about how to participate. Top Level Comment privileges are reserved to those who are active r/Christian members currently in good standing. So if you want to request the special flair needed for top level commenting, please be sure to message the r/AskChristian mod team to check your eligibility.

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I'm trying to have AM remove top level comments from users without a specific user flair, then send them a message explaining why. I thought it was working until someone with the specific flair received the removal message and AM removed their comment despite their account being appropriately flaired.

Can anyone tell me what the issue is with the code?

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#REMOVE top level comments from users that do not have privileges

type: comment

is_top_level: true

author:

~flair_template_id: “76ca5770-9078-11f1-acb7-8af9da1a7bf8”

action: remove

action_reason: Unflaired User

set_locked: true

message: |

Message is here.

---

(The extra line space between each line is a copy/paste formatting issue when sharing it here, it's not in the actual code except between "message: |" and the start of the indented message text. Also, the "~flair" line is indented 2 spaces and the "Message is here" message area is indented appropriately as well, it just removed it when I made this post.)

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I'm trying to have AM remove top level comments from users without a specific user flair, then send them a message explaining why. I thought it was working until someone with the specific flair received the removal message and AM removed their comment despite their account being appropriately flaired.

Can anyone tell me what the issue is with the code?

---

#REMOVE top level comments from users that do not have privileges

type: comment

is_top_level: true

author:

~flair_template_id: “76ca5770-9078-11f1-acb7-8af9da1a7bf8”

action: remove

action_reason: Unflaired User

set_locked: true

message: |

Message is here.

---

(The extra line space between each line is a copy/paste formatting issue when sharing it here, it's not in the actual code except between "message: |" and the start of the indented message text. Also, the "~flair" line is indented 2 spaces and the "Message is here" message area is indented appropriately as well, it just removed it when I made this post.)

Each “TacoTuesday” in r/Christian we share a post dedicated to discussion on the writings of an author whose work is considered “spicy.” (You know...like good tacos.)

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This week is Thomas Merton.

Merton's (authored or co-authored) Top Ten most popular titles are:

The Seven Storey Mountain

New Seeds of Contemplation

No Man is an Island

The Way of Chuang Tzu

Contemplative Prayer

Thoughts in Solitude

The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings From the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century

Zen and the Birds of Appetite

The Sign of Jonas

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Have you read any of Merton's work? Let's TACObout it!

In the comment section I will be sharing 10 quotes from Merton, for you consideration and to (hopefully) spark discussion.

If you're enjoying this post and want to see more like it, just click the post flair to see a list of past Taco Tuesday posts in r/Christian. If you'd like to suggest an author to be included, please let the mod team know.

The Mod Team is considering a fun sub tradition centered on the most celebrated liturgical holidays of the community.

Since we’re ecumenical, we understand there’s a variety of liturgical calendars and traditions being followed.

So we’re asking: which liturgical holidays or holy days do you personally celebrate?

Please let us know!

This week’s poll is a request from a community member. We’re going to present the poll exactly as requested. Please note that there are a limited number of options available & we understand that means not every possible response is covered by the provided options.

The purpose of our polls is to spark respectful group discussion, so whether you find an option that suits you and vote for it or you have an answer that isn’t covered by those options, we encourage you to share your view in the comment section.

From the submitter:

My mind has been on the increasing polarization we see in the world today. Every time I think I’ve found a cause for this split, I realize that things were already fracturing before then. I am now looking at the two major theological camps in Protestantism, Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology. I would love to know if there is a trend in political sway between these two camps.

Therefore, I’d love to get this poll posted so that a large number of people can interact with it.

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This week’s poll is about Jesus being “fully God and fully man.”

As always, the goal of a community poll is to spark respectful group discussion. Please use the comment section to share more on your view.*

*Please note that Rule 1 prohibits promotion of views that contradict the tenets of Christianity in the Nicene Creed. Because of that, we have included a voting option for unorthodox views where you can indicate that you hold one, but discussion in comments will be limited to the other options. (ie, if you’re an adoptionist you can vote for the last option, but you cannot share your views on that in the comments.)

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With the new change where Reddit labels Devvit apps and Automod as “APP” when posting, what would make a regular user’s account show up with the label?

I’m wondering if there’s a way to use automod in desktop to automatically remove top level comments from users who don’t have a specific user flair (or one of several options) but to still allow users without flair to post and/or reply to top level comments.

Has anyone here done that successfully before and would you mind sharing automod code for it?

We have a weekly tradition here in r/Christian that we call “TACObout it Tuesday.” Each Tuesday we share a post dedicated to discussion on the writings of an author whose work is considered “spicy.” (You know...like good tacos.)

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This week is Barbara Brown Taylor.

Taylor's (authored or co-authored) Top Ten most popular titles are:

An Alter in the World: A Geography of Faith

Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

Learning to Walk in the Dark

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

The Preaching Life

Home By Another Way: A Christmas Story

When God is Silent

Always a Guest: Speaking of Faith Far From Home

The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion

Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation

Have you read any of Taylor's work? Let's TACObout it!

In the comment section I will be sharing 10 quotes from Taylor, for you consideration and to (hopefully) spark discussion.

Please help us compile a list of your favorite Christian (and Christianity-related) subreddits.

Rather than simply pulling a list ourselves, we'd like your help with compiling one based on your recommendations. So, please tag your favorite subs and tell us what you appreciate about them. Upvote your favorites if others have already shared them and/or add your own comment about what you appreciate that they're doing well. You can use it as an opportunity to give out some kudos to our neighboring Christian/Christianity-related subs and/or their mod teams!

Please don't use this post to complain about or call out other subs, their communities or their moderators. If you don't like one that's recommended by others, just scroll on past. There's enough complaining elsewhere. We don't need that here today.

Thank, y'all!

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Today we are announcing r/AbbieGator's retirement from the moderation team here in r/TransChristianity. She will be focusing her time on other commitments and projects, but we still expect to see her around here in the subreddit community as well as others in the neighborhood.

Please join me in thanking Abbie for five years of service to this community! Wow!!

Please also join me in welcoming u/Nerd_In_House to the Mod Team! Nerd is full of great ideas and energy for the future of this community and we can all look forward to seeing what that future holds! Welcome!!