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>Inerrancy is properly a theological conclusion based on one's
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>view of the inspiration of the Bible. If one believes that the
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>Bible is verbally (i.e. every word) and plenarily (i.e. in its
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>entirety) inspired by God, it logically follows that the Bible is
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>inerrant. If God's inspiration of Scripture is verbal and
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>plenary, the Bible cannot teach falsehood or error.
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Hidden premise --- God is restricted to writing history and is
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precluded from such literary forms as the short story, outrageous
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overstatement, myth, . . . Then there's the matter of literary
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forms that are NOT current today, such as the apocalyptic form.
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I'd rather not be too hasty in restricting what literary output
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might come from the originator of the duck-billed platypus, the
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giraffe, and human sexuality.
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