Biblical inerrancy: is the doctrinal position that the Bible is considered accurate and totally free of error.
In many of our circles of faith we tend to believe that the Scriptures are inerrant, or without error. Biblical inerrency is true, depending upon what you mean when you say that the Bible is inerrant. Some may say, "it simply means what it says!" But there are actually two different ways to view this subject.
Some literalist or conservative Christians teach that the Bible is without error in every way on all sorts of matters: chronology, history, biology, sociology, psychology, politics, physics, math, art, and so on. This is not true. The Bible does contain errors concerning historical dates and numbers. When encountering this truth, one has to remember that this is not even the POINT in the Bible, to present everything single detail literally without error.
The sense of inerrancy that is most in line with Christian tradition means that the Scriptures are always right (do not err) in fulfilling their purpose: revealing God, God's vision, God's purposes, and God's good news to humanity.
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