How important is "inerrancy" to you and/or your church?

Levels of Inerrancy:

-3 the Bible has many major errors and is invalid
-2 The Bible has major errors
so is only marginally useful
-1 the Bible has minor errors and should
be used with caution
0 The Bible has minor errors but is still useful
1 The Bible is inerrant on all doctrinal issues
2 The Bible is inerrant on all issues:
doctrinal, historic, and scientific
3 The Bible is inerrant in the origional autographs
4 The Bible is inerrant only in the Textus Receptus (TR)
5 The Bible is inerrant only in the KJV 1611
(exclusive of translator notes)
6 The Bible is inerrant only in the KJV 1611
(including the translator notes)
7 The Bible is inerrant only in the
KJB1769 and/or KJB 1873
8 The Bible is inerrant in any English
translation based on the TR
9 The Bible is inerrant in any
English translation translated
by dynamic qeuivalence
10 The Bible is inerrant in all English translations
11 the Bible is inerrant as implemented
in the Doctrine of the Church of England
12 The Bible is inerrant as
implemented in the US Republican
Party platform

How inerrant do you believe the Bible
to be? I give it an inerrancy of TEN!!!

[ January 06, 2003, 11:09 PM: Message edited by: Ed Edwards ]

 

inerrancy word for word,no but doctrinal inerrancy YES YES YES!!!!

 

Considering that this is the Fundamental Forum, isn't this somewhat of a silly question. Don't the rules in this forum exclude the type of discussion that questions the bible in this manner? Just wandering

3 by the way

 

In one of my faith crises, the inerrancy of the Bible
was what brought me back to our God. I had be-
gun to question all things "religious," because of
the things I was going through at the church in
which I was then involved.

Many of my questions were regarding the Bible
itself, but for every question I had re its inerrancy,
the Bible proved true. I am sitting here wishing I
could remember some of the things I persued in
this endeavor, but I cannot; I just remember being
constantly astounded as I searched and found.

Inerrancy, to me, is not just a theory; it is a pro-
found and astounding fact.

 

The reformers had as their motto, "sola scriptura." Now that kind of stand is only verifiable if we believe in an inerrant bible.

Scripture and its inerrancy heads the list of Baptist distinctives....BRAPSIS/BAPTISTS, etc. It also heads the lists of "Fundamentals" which guided our brethren 100 years ago through the morass of liberalism.

That sounds like a good place to start this forum as our non-negotiable foundation.