Biblical inerrancy

Biblical inerrancy is the view that the Bible is the inspired Word of God and is in every detail infallible and without error in the original autographs. This view was ably expressed in 1978 in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, an interdenominational statement of evangelical scholars and leaders to defend biblical inerrancy against the trend toward neo-orthodox conceptions of scripture. It proclaims: "The authority of Scripture is inescapably impaired if this total divine inerrancy is in any way limited or disregarded, or made relative to a view of truth contrary to the Bible's own; and such lapses bring serious loss to both the individual and the Church." Article XII states: "We affirm that Scripture in its entirety is inerrant, being free from all falsehood, fraud, or deceit."

External links

Pro, general

• History of Inspiration of the Bible
• Bible quotes of Jesus on the infallibility of Scripture
• Biblical Inerrancy by John H. Gerstner
• CreationWiki on Biblical inerrancy
• Monergism.com links to articles on Scripture from a conservative Calvinist perspective
• The Christian and Authority - discussing the inerrancy and primacy of Scripture from the Christian Research Institute
• The Evangelical Theological Society is a professional organization of Bible scholars and theologians who affirm inerrancy with a journal that often discusses issues surrounding inerrancy
• The Authority and Inspiration of the Scriptures by B. B. Warfield
• The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (wikisource)
• Theologians Reject Biblical Inerrancy
• The Authority of Scripture from Answers in Genesis
• Response to agnostic charge of use of circular reasoning
• Answers to a list of Biblical contradictions
• Defining Biblical Inerrancy by Vic Reasoner — a conservative Arminian/Wesleyan perspective
• Apologetics Press

Pro, Bible verse resources

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• Christian Debater
• Tekton Apologetics Ministry
• A Christian Thinktank

Pro, specific issues

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• Aramaic Peshitta is Inerrant which contends that the Greek is fallible but the Aramaic version is perfect (very few inerrantist scholars hold this view).

Con

• A Primer for Second Semester Divinity School Students
• INERRANCY: Is the Bible free of error? All points of view
• Wesleyanism & the Inerrancy Issue by J. Kenneth Grider