Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: rei3@tank.uchicago.edu (ted reichardt) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Human ==> imperfection? Message-ID: Date: 11 Jul 89 06:31:07 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: U of Chicago Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , sjreeves@eedsp (Stan Reeves) writes: [commenting on an argument that the human side of scripture implies relativity and imperfection in scripture: ] >Jesus Christ -- fully human and fully divine. Did he then partake of >relativity and imperfection too? Those who seek to refute the inerrancy >of Scripture based on the above argument (i.e. human = imperfect) cannot >avoid the implication that Christ himself was imperfect. Actually, they (we) can avoid it quite easily: when the humanity of Christ is spoken of, it is a "perfect" humanity; when the humanity of the scripture authors is spoken of, it is a manifestly imperfect humanity. >Stan Reeves tedr [Actually I thought Stan's response was perhaps a little unfair. The point of the original article was that only God is infallible. Far from attacking Christ, this was intended to make clear his unique status. --clh]