Resurrection (Alward rebuts Carter)
Jason Carter wcarter@mediaone.net
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 00:43:23 -0500 (00917955803, 3.0.1.32.19990202004323.00822380@pop.atl.mediaone.net)
At 09:58 AM 2/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>At 11:38 PM 1/31/99 -0500, Jason Carter wrote:
>
>>CARTER
>>Ok, next project is a description of the Elohim/Yaweh usage. And thank
you for
>>recognizing that I have won the argument concerning the existence of a
>>contradiction in Gen 1 and 2:19.
>>
>
>TILL
>Did I miss something? When has this been recognized? I've been seeing
>several responses to Turkel's pathetic effort to cut-and-paste and
>plagiarize his way through an "explanation" of this problem. Until you
>answer those rebuttals, how do you think you have "won." or are you ignorant
>of a debater's responsibility to answer an opponent's counterarguments.
>
>Have you had any luck getting Turkel to come out of hiding? Are you going
>to accept my challenge to serve as a stand-in for him? If so, I'll start my
>point-by-point reply to his article next week. Before I start it, however,
>I want your assurance that you will reply point-by-point.
CARTER
Well Till, you haven't really offered any rebutals have you? The basic point,
which you CANNOT refute, unless you are a complete imbecile (in the
psychological definition of the term), is that the WAW consec. can be
EITHER be translated as a pluperfect, OR the passage could be referencing a
special creation for the
purpose of naming the animals. I'm sorry, but since I have shown other verses
which are translated as pluperfect with the WAW, I have refuted the
contradiction,
and you have lost.
NOTE TO LURKERS: Notice how Till CANNOT admit he has lost an argument, even
when
the evidence is against him. This only supports the claim that the
skeptical position is more of a spiritual problem (in this case massive
ego) than an mental one.
-Jason