A Challenge to Farrell Till

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>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?


BRIDEAN
The Bible claims that Mary was a virgin in Matthew.  If she
was not a virgin, then this seems to have a lot to do with 
Bible "Errancy".

MATT
2. How one is supposed to affirm a miraculous happening without first
ascertaining whether miracles are possible or not? 

BRIDEAN
I don't know how Till would handle this, but I would concede for the
moment that miracles are possible.  However, since some things
that are thought to be miracles later on are proven not to be miracles
it seems that the particular miracle of the "virgin birth" would still
have to be proven or disproven.  Care to give it a try Matt?

MATT
3. How one is supposed to affirm any event in the Bible without begging the
question of the event to be affirmed?

BRIDEAN
Seems like you are the one who presented the challenge.  You said that
Till could pick ANY topic.  If you are going to rule out "events" in the
Bible as being a possible topic for discussion then it seems that you
would have a very limited area that you could cover.  Seems like pretty
much most of the Bible is relating "events" to us.  So how is ruling out
most of the Bible when discussing Bible Errancy fair?

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