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God cannot lie, can he? Inspiration necessarily leads to a conceptualization or identification of doctrine of inerrancy. Truthfulness motivates the teaching of inspiration and thus inerrancy. Said differently, inspiration serves to maintain the truthfulness of Scripture. Truth, then, reflects the actuality of a reality. Scripture keeps what really is real. The events of Scripture witness to a true reality, though possibly from different perspectives. Scripture stands against error, that is, Scripture cannot, because of its truthfulness, be found with error. Error and Truth cannot exist in the mind of God with regards to reality. What is is in the mind of God. What is not is not presented as real in the mind of God and thus the Scriptures. So Scripture directly reflects truthful reality to the same degree that the reality of the image reflects itself in the mirror. Scripture stands in conjunction with the truthfulness of God. If God is errant, then Scripture can err. But if God cannot lie, and he cannot, then the Scriptures cannot lie. (It must be made presently known that this evangelical doctrine refers only to the original autographs of the canonical books. This leads one to question the practicality of such inerrancy.) Thus, compliance to the doctrine of inspiration and thus inerrancy bears upon ones approach/presupposition of the Scripture. One either approaches Scripture with the assumption of its truthfulness or one approaches Scripture with the assumption of its untruthfulness, even if it is only an assumption of the possibility of untruthfulness.

1. Can you view Genesis 1-11 as “creation myth” or from a “literary-critical” point of view and still be consistent with inerrancy?
2. Why do Christians deny inerrancy?
3. Origen (who probably had a higher view of Scripture than most evangelicals/fundamentalists) affirmed error in Scripture, but he affirmed that the errors were Inspired. Is this appropriate?

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