Inerrant

There seems to be a great desire to cling to the term inerrant while turning it into something else entirely. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

If you aren't troubled by the loss of the word inerrant then chuck it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm still not clear what it means to treat the propositions in this passage as "inerrant" - or, if these aren't propositions, then in what sense are non-propositional statements appropriately categorized as either "errant" or "inerrant"? ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

What has been the modern history of viewing the Bible as "inerrant" - that is, literally true in all its details? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, the notion of inerrant scripture is, to me, untenable based on transcription and translation. ❋ Ph.D. Ed Gurowitz (2010)

They don't worship a Power that is actually great enough to create the intricacies of the natural world, but rather a golden calf called the inerrant Bible or the inerrant Koran. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, while this view can be accepted in an "inerrant" sense....believing that the texts, in and of themselves, are fully empowered by God to reveal truths about mortality/immortality....they are also fully acceptable in "non-inerrant" views. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

I'm not defending an "inerrant" view of Ecclesiastes....merely saying that it can be worked into both and inerrant and non-inerrant approach. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

One irony, of course, is that this passage, which is so clearly at odds with later Christian doctrines about the afterlife, could probably be accepted as "inerrant" by many people today - but not by most Christians! ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

I found myself wondering yet again today what those who speak of the Bible as "inerrant" do with Ecclesiastes 9:2-6. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

I'll take Alethinon61/Kaz's side on this one......though not from an "inerrant" perspective. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

We're either going to be relying on our own judgements and our own judgements INCLUDE deciding that Scripture is 'inerrant' in whatever denominational way you want to understand that or else we are going to be relying on the Spirit to guide us and the wounds of Christ to hide us. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

In other words, I don't believe that Rhology has a clue about what Christian salvation actually means - and he's clinging to the 'inerrant' Bible as a substitute for it. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

I was raised that the bible was the literally perfect, "inerrant" word of God, essentially dictated by God to the writers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Believing that the Bible must be proven "inerrant" or "infallible" or any other special quality setting it apart from the rest of God's creation displays, to me, a profound lack of faith. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

In order to treat the Bible as 'inerrant' one has to attribute inerrancy to not only those who made these judgments, but also to the authors at least while they were writing. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

Most pastors I know are sincere, but ill informed or duplistic and well informed, not willing to risk all for what they clearly also see is a problem with the "inerrant" text of the Bible. ❋ Unknown (2007)

First of all, when the fundamentalists claim that the Bible is "inerrant" – literally true from back to front – which Bible are they talking about? ❋ Unknown (2005)

They don’t worship a Power that is actually great enough to create the intricacies of the natural world, but rather a golden calf called the inerrant Bible or the inerrant Koran. ❋ Unknown (2009)