Is The Bible Inerrant?
Is the Position that The Bible is Inerrant Defensible? I argue that it's not--although I find the very fact that I have to argue against the doctrine of biblical inerrancy to be strange. But there are people out there that truly believe the Bible is error free. So let's examine this proposition a little more closely and see if it holds up to scrutiny. Evangelical Christians hold that the Bible is the inerrant, perfect, word of God. This means it cannot have any mistakes in it--i.e., it is error proof. They also believe the Bible is literal, meaning everything it says or claims is true. Therefore it is both infallible and perfect. Christian apologists such as Norman Geisler and William Nix, in their book A General Introduction to the Bible (1986), claim that scriptural inerrancy of the Bible is established by a number of observations and processes, which include: The historical accuracy of the Bible The Bible's claims of its own inerrancy Churc...