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Originally Posted by zeek
Since no one else has defined inerrancy on this thread I will:
"A SHORT STATEMENT
1. God, who is Himself Truth and speaks truth only, has inspired Holy Scripture in order thereby to reveal Himself to lost mankind through Jesus Christ as Creator and Lord, Redeemer and Judge. Holy Scripture is God's witness to Himself.
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True.
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2. Holy Scripture, being God's own Word, written by men prepared and superintended by His Spirit, is of infallible divine authority in all matters upon which it touches: it is to be believed, as God's instruction, in all that it affirms; obeyed, as God's command, in all that it
requires; embraced, as God's pledge, in all that it promises.
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True. Infallibility meaning the divine truth it accurately teaches is infallible.
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3. The Holy Spirit, Scripture's divine Author, both authenticates it to us by His inward witness and opens our minds to understand its meaning.
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True.
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4. Being wholly and verbally God-given, Scripture is without error or fault in all its teaching, no less in what it states about God's acts in creation, about the events of world history, and about its own literary origins under God, than in its witness to God's saving grace in individual lives.
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True. Note: "without error or fault
in its teaching, not in the recounting of every detail. In other words, it teaches truth about God's truth.
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5. 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. "
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True. Once you say one verse doesn't teach God's truth, you might as well say the whole thing doesn't.