tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623369862182990355.post4648130066206440632..comments2023-03-08T09:23:47.348-05:00Comments on Dean's World: The pope and the virgin birth Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333223125397603828noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623369862182990355.post-54909077200258359472012-11-28T04:25:14.131-05:002012-11-28T04:25:14.131-05:00Apparently a chapter in Pope Benedicts’s new book ...Apparently a chapter in Pope Benedicts’s new book is titled: Virgin birth – Myth or Historical Truth?<br /><br />This question falls over from the start if the virgin birth story doesn’t appear in the New Testament. And it doesn’t.<br /><br />With the missionary activities of Paul and others, the passing of the original followers of Jesus and the destruction of Jerusalem, the NT soon fell into Jerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11116924571320004221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623369862182990355.post-88919503046962408392012-11-21T15:08:11.861-05:002012-11-21T15:08:11.861-05:00Us, you Re right about ideas changing. Good to hea...Us, you Re right about ideas changing. Good to hear I can still have stacks of books. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333223125397603828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623369862182990355.post-8843923617819989502012-11-21T15:06:50.894-05:002012-11-21T15:06:50.894-05:00John, interesting question. I wonder if the norms ...John, interesting question. I wonder if the norms on this have changed. I prepare to teach or preach by doing my exegesis of the passage to understand it in its context as fully as possible and then do interpretation. I do not start out by adjusting my exegesis to the conclusion I want to reach. In my day we used to call that isogesis, meaning making my study come to the conclusions I already Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333223125397603828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623369862182990355.post-29084692949704619912012-11-21T12:21:52.750-05:002012-11-21T12:21:52.750-05:00Even in the sciences, ideas change. I am so old th...Even in the sciences, ideas change. I am so old that I remember not only when Pluto was a planet but when it was bigger than Mercury. Still, although ideas come and go, even in science, the wheat of truth is eventually sifted from the chaff of speculation. Even in Biblical scholarship.<br /><br />By the way, Dean, in the IT world, information backed up in memory is referred to as "stacked,&Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10963174685932164003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623369862182990355.post-72441006394721458822012-11-21T10:04:17.024-05:002012-11-21T10:04:17.024-05:00Having not read the book either, I don't have ...Having not read the book either, I don't have any answers, but I suspect the Creed is a central issue for the Pope.<br /><br />I am curious about your faith in scholarship as a higher authority than church and theology. Most biblical scholarship is not that much different from academic scholarship in the humanities in general. Fads come and go and the certain truths of 50 years ago are openlyJohn Meunierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15640046073453219165noreply@blogger.com