Four underlying presuppositions (for Michael the prophet)
Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:10:34 -0800 (00887883034, 2.2.32.19980219041034.006e8300@midwest.net)
At 07:23 PM 2/18/98 -0000, Tim Bedding wrote:
>TIM
>Jesus is claimed to have two natures, a human nature and a divine nature.
>The word I have seen used is fully rather than wholly.
>If you are going to reject the existence of Jesus because he is claimed to
>have two natures and not reject the existence of electrons because they
>can behave both as a wave and as a particle, then this seems to me to be
>a contradiction.
>A way to distinguish between the two is to say that
>current scientific consensus accepts electrons and rejects Jesus.
TILL
Let's suppose that you should hear tomorrow of a man in, say, New Zealand
who proclaimed himself to be the son of God and that he was wholly human and
wholly divine. Would you catch a plane to New Zealand so that you could
personally check into his claim? If not, why not?
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net