Quotes About Inerrancy

The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

John knew that if you push the so-called Sola Scriptura Calvinist approach and the "inerrancy" ideas to their absurd limit, all real study of the Bible stops. It becomes a magical text. It is no longer open to interpretation. Dogma replaces study, because scholarship can only be meaningful when you are allowed to ask real questions and let the chips fall where they may. It

every time Jesus mentioned the Torah, he qualified it with something like this: "The scriptures say thus and so, but I say…" I should have said, "Jesus undermined the inerrancy of the scriptures in favor of his version of pragmatic empathy!" or "Every time Jesus undermined the scriptures it was to err on the side of nonjudgmental co-suffering love. So up yours

Theologians have a way of resolving things that are inerrant and writing them down in books that go unread.

What holds scripture together is not simply accurate information or inerrant propositions about God, life, and the world. What holds it together is the reality of Christ himself, the living, eternal Son through whom God reconciles the world to himself in love.

Pharisees were the upstanding "conservative evangelical pastors" of their day, strongly convinced of the inerrancy of Scripture and its sufficiency for guidance in every area of life, if only it could be properly interpreted.69 Yet it is precisely such an environment in which a healthy perspective on the Bible can easily give way to legalism.

Pharisees were the upstanding "conservative evangelical pastors" of their day, strongly convinced of the inerrancy of Scripture and its sufficiency for guidance in every area of life, if only it could be properly interpreted.

orthodox claim of scriptural inerrancy and reliability.

The Bible contains no errors; it is correct in all that it asserts. Since God does not lie or err, and the Bible is his word, it follows that everything written in it is true.

The Bible cannot and does not contain errors, whether it is speaking of spiritual, historical, or other matters. It is correct in all that it affirms.

Since the Scripture is the very word of God, or God speaking, the necessary conclusion is that it carries the authority of God. Therefore, the authority of Scripture is identical to the authority of God.

any specific teaching that contradicts a teaching of the Bible is false.

Literalism is a hermeneutical decision (often implicit) stemming from the belief that God's Word requires a literal reading.