Bob,
What Allen posted concerning the soul is standard SDA teaching, usually
described as "soul sleep." I consider the claims special pleading. The
nonreductionistic monism of Nancey Murphy and others happens to overlap
it. As I and Paul noted some time back, the latter group ignores all the
scriptures that do not fit their view. I will here go further and state
that nonreductive monism cannot accommodate the incarnation. I have
submitted a paper to EPS arguing this point.
Contrary to George's statement that the virgin birth or virginal
conception is not part of the ASA Statement of Faith, I believe that the
mention of the Nicene and Apostle's Creeds indicates that it is included.
I don't know what else may be made of "Born of the Virgin Mary" and "And
was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary." I believe in an
earlier post I noted that, apart from the virginal conception, the deity
would be acting exactly as demon possession is described, usurping the
individual's selfhood. I grant that the ecumenical creeds later than the
Nicene (the date of the current form of the Apostles' Creed is not
certain: it is not part of the Orthodox statements) elaborate the
statement about the Lord's nature, but they do not introduce either his
deity or his virgin birth.
Dave
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