A Challenge to Farrell Till
Joseph Crea Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 19:31:25 +0000 (00918005485, 19990202193125.NUS7829@LOCALNAME)
Hello, Mike!
At 11:50 AM 2/2/99 -0500, Vaujin, Michael O (FL51) wrote:
>
>Matthew Bell
>It is high time that I put my neck on the line for what I believe, i.e.
>Biblical Inerrancy, hence I am proposing to you (Farrell Till) that I will
>engage in written debate on any subject either:
>
>a) previously published in TSR and not responded to by an inerrantist.
>b) any other matter of alleged errancy you wish to discuss.
--snip--
>Mike
>I'm pulling up a chair, popping some popcorn, and filtering out all threads
>but this one. Choose a good topic, Farrell. Jesus' genealogies perhaps?
>Beware, Matt thinks that just because the Bible doesn't mention that the
>curse was lifted, doesn't mean that it wasn't. The fact that the Bible
>mentions placing a curse in Jesus' family history, but doesn't bother to
>mention the important fact the it was removed of course doesn't strike him
>as odd.
CREA
Even if the "cursed lineage" argument is scotched, which isn't likely,
there still remains that fact that according to the Messianic prophecy in
Jeremiah 30:21-22, the promised deliverer/ruler, besides being a descendent
of David, is to come from "...of themselves, and ... shall proceed from the
midst of them". It's already been shown that ANY descendent of DAVID, by OT
laws handed down by ole YHWH himself, cannot be considered to be an
Israelite, thus this prophecy comes into the world stillborn (so to speak)
since it requires the accomplishment of two mutually contradictory
conditions. ;-)
As for me, I'd be just as happy to learn from Matt where Josiah, King of
Judah actually died. It's a simple problem and should be able to be
resolved in one or two postings (unless Matt gives into weakness and waxes
eisigetical).
With Mettaa,
Joseph Crea
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