A Challenge to Farrell Till
Carl Geisik cgeisik@lanl.gov
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 14:55:23 -0700 (00918014123, 3.0.32.19990202145522.0090c320@dxmail.lanl.gov)
At 07:01 PM 2/2/99 -0000, you 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 for brevity>
>
>>Farrell Till
>> Sounds great. You have heard me say that I am working frantically this week
>> to finish the copy of the next issue of TSR, so it will be a week probably
>> before I will have time to begin.
>
>Matthew Bell
>No problems with the timeframe.
>
>>Farrell Till
>>Do you want me to suggest the subject? You said that "any"
>>would do. I propose that you affirm this. RESOLVED: Jesus
>>of Nazareth was born of a virgin, i.e., a woman who had never
>>had sexual intercourse with a male.
>
>Matthew Bell
>I said, '...any other matter of alleged errancy you wish to discuss.' Perhaps
>you could clarify a few matters
>on your proposal:
>
>1. How it relates to Biblical Errancy?
>2. How one is supposed to affirm a miraculous happening without first
>ascertaining whether miracles are possible or not?
>3. How one is supposed to affirm any event in the Bible without begging the
>question of the event to be affirmed?
>
>Apologies for the questions, but I have never engaged in a formal debate and
GEISIK
No need to tell us that.
Carl Geisik
<<SNIP>>>
>Matthew Bell
>I am touched ;)
>
>Thanks
>M.Bell
>