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             JACKSON-TILL DEBATE 

   Farrell Till and Bill Jackson, a Church-of-Christ preacher from Austin, 
Texas, have completed a written debate on the Bible inerrancy doctrine.  The 
manuscripts are being published by the Southwest Church of Christ, 8900 
Manchaca Road, Austin, TX 78748 and will soon be available at $2.25 per 
copy, postpaid.  

   This debate clearly exposes the absurdity of the inerrancy doctrine.  We 
enthusiastically recommend it.  All orders should be directed to the above 
address. 

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JEREMIAH...
the Septuagint dilemma, for what is true of the Septuagint version of Jeremi-
ah is generally true of its versions of the other Old Testament books.  They 
are characterized by faulty translation and significant variations from the 
Masoretic text.  Skeptics of the inerrancy doctrine have every right, then, to 
ask its believers to explain why the Holy Spirit chose a flawed version of the 
Old Testament as his primary source of scripture quotations in the writing of 
the New Testament.  And what should be our position relative to significant 
variations between the Septuagint and Masoretic texts, as in the examples 
cited above? Are we to believe that the Septuagint was verbally inspired and 
the Masoretic wasn't?  Or should we believe the Masoretic was inspired and 
the Septuagint wasn't?  Either choice  poses major problems for inerrancy 
proponents. If they go with the Holy Spirit and choose the Septuagint as the 
"verbally inspired" version, they must explain why they have relied for so 
long on the Masoretic as their primary textual source.  If, on the other 
hand, they choose the Masoretic, then they return us to where we started. 
How do they explain why the Holy Spirit directed New Testament writers to 
quote the uninspired Septuagint?

   These are questions begging for answers.  Perhaps some enterprising 
inerrantist among our readers can give us the answers.



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