Till and Inerrancy - part II

Robby Alyn Berry errancy@freethought.tamu.edu
Fri, 15 Sep 95 14:52 CDT (00811216320, 199509151953.PAA27891@bronze.coil.com)



>Till's claim, you will recall, is that the propositions
>
> (A1) God is omnipotent
> (A2) God is omniscient
>and
> (A3) There is more than one inerrant gospel record
>
>comprise a logically inconsistent set; it is impossible that the conjunction
>of these propositions be true. In particular, Till assumes that
>
> (A4) Necessarily, if God is omnipotent and omniscient, then there will
> be exactly one inerrant gospel record (if any).

Am I the only one who finds this interpretation of Till's arguments questionable? As I understand it, Till is not claiming that "God is omnipotent", "God is omniscient", and "there is more than one inerrant gospel record" are contradictory. My understanding (based on reading "The Resurrection Maze") is that Till is claiming that the set of events {E1, E2, E3 ... En} is inconsistent, where E1..En is the set of all events mentioned in all four gospels.

It seems to me as though Richard Davis is either misrepresenting or (more probably) misunderstanding Till's argument. However, if I'm not mistaken, Till has had some email contact with Davis, and perhaps Till really did make this argument in his email conversation.

Farrell, do you think that Davis has understood your argument correctly? For that matter, do you think that *I* have understood your argument correctly?

Sincerely,

Rob Berry

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