Ted Hoffman

Peter Kirby
Non-christian support? Do we have non-christian support that does not render the word "know" as having sex? Look Kirby, I think its a lot meaningful to focus on the christian semantics because its of more primary importance. For example, other "pagan" religions had consepts of incarnation but they did not exactly use the same phraseology used by Paul or used in the OT and NT, BUT they has strikingly similar belief systems. I would therefore hope that we focus on the use of the phrase in the bible and specifically by Paul.
For philological reasons, Earl Doherty has concluded that Paul's meaning did not entail a physical being, as I have explained at the beginning of this quote.

I shall be much obliged if we embarked on a thorough exegesis of Pauls writings and the use of the phrase in NT, and perhaps the OT.

Unless of course you see the error in that.