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Again, neither I nor the writer of the definition is promoting the correctness of the belief behind the definition. I assume everyone on The Highway strongly affirms Biblical inerrancy. However, there are those who wrongly asserts that the Bible contains some types of errors. In giving the definition of partial inerrancy, I was only trying to fine tune the definition, not advocating it.

Here is the quote by the writer in his pamphlet, Translations on Trial: Is Your Bible the Word of God? by Robert Gromacki. Btw, the pamphlet is a good resource in explaining the history of the Bible compilation, major terms such as inspiration, revelation, pleneary inspiration, verbal inspiration, original writings, inerrancy, authority. Plus he gives an overview of the various translations.

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The Bible is inerrant and infallible in all matters which it addresses. The Bible is inspired truth, not only in issues of doctrinal faith and moral living, but also in areas of history, geography and science.

The Evangelical Theological Society is an organization whose members subscribe annually to a basic doctrinal statement: "The Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and is therefore inerrant in the autographia."

Unfortunately, a growing number of professing evangelicals cannot consciententiously sign the statement. They embrace a position of partial or limited inerrancy. They believe the Bible is inerrant and infallible on matters of faith and practice, but not, even in the original writings, it contained historical, chronological and geographical errors.

The issue of the complete inerrancy and infallibility of the total original Scriptures is the real doctrinal battleground today. Those who embrace this foundational doctrine (Inerrancy) should unite in its defense against the attacks made by both liberals and some evangelicals.


-- This was printed in 1990; it is far worse today in the questioning of biblical inerrancy.

John Chaney

"having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith . . ." Colossians 2:7