RE: Arguments Against Miracles
March 24, 2012 at 9:40 pm
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2012 at 10:09 pm by rationalnick.)
I have pointed to these issues in an email to him and I guess I'll see what excuses he has. I'm beginning to think that it's a mug's game trying to reason with someone who has made his career out of trying to find proof not only that miracles occur, but that they are the direct product of a specifically Christian omniscient deity who is floating around outside of the universe and is fiddling around and getting virgin's pregnant.
And this is what I get:
Regarding how a particular passage of the bible is read requires employing sound hermeneutical principles. Suffice it to say that I am willing to argue that there are principled and non-arbitrary ways to distinguish between passages which are to be taken literally and ones which are not. I have already suggested several books to you, so let me suggest two more, Greg Boyd's Letters to a Sceptic, and J. Gresham Machen's The Virgin Birth of Christ. They deal with many of the issues you are raising. I am willing to continue our conversation, but before we do so, I would want you to read some of the material I have suggested. That would familiarize you with the responses that can be made to the questions you are asking. e.g. are not the accounts of Jesus's virgin birth on a par with numerous other accounts.
And this is what I get:
Regarding how a particular passage of the bible is read requires employing sound hermeneutical principles. Suffice it to say that I am willing to argue that there are principled and non-arbitrary ways to distinguish between passages which are to be taken literally and ones which are not. I have already suggested several books to you, so let me suggest two more, Greg Boyd's Letters to a Sceptic, and J. Gresham Machen's The Virgin Birth of Christ. They deal with many of the issues you are raising. I am willing to continue our conversation, but before we do so, I would want you to read some of the material I have suggested. That would familiarize you with the responses that can be made to the questions you are asking. e.g. are not the accounts of Jesus's virgin birth on a par with numerous other accounts.
