Is The Bible Inerrant?

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Originally Posted by Ohio

You have never pointed out errors in the scriptures, only discrepancies in the manuscripts.

To the young earth creationist, the earth was absolutely created in the seven days recorded in Genesis 1. Yet it is most likely that there were long and overlapping eras in which those events occurred. To declare "inerrant," you have to assert that one way of reading Genesis chapter 1 is THE WAY to read it. That way is the only inerrant way. Any others are in error.

So . . . is it 7 days (well, 6) or is it millions of years? One is inerrant and the other is error.

Unless it doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter, then the claims of "inerrancy" down to the specific words used becomes pointless or even ridiculous.

And if that is the case and you still want to use the term, then you have a slightly less inerrant version of inerrancy.

But I like a scripture that leads us to God and Christ, not a scripture that is so perfect that it is inerrant, and we can then fight over what that means. Many doctrinal statements are more certain about the inerrancy of scripture than they are about the person of Christ.

They have it backward.