Inerrancy / Infallibility of Scripture
Scripture without error in all it affirms — but how far does that reach?
Inerrancy is the teaching that Scripture is without error in what it affirms. Augustine spoke of the trustworthiness of the biblical text, and the theme was developed in later Protestant scholasticism and the modern Chicago Statement. Traditions differ in scope and definition: a strong, detailed inerrancy is emphasized especially in conservative Protestantism, while other communions frame Scripture's reliability and freedom from error in varying ways.
Key passages(5)
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Letters of St. Augustin · Augustine of Hippo
Letter LXXXII. (a.d. 405.) A Reply to Letters LXXII., LXXV., and LXXXI. To Jerome, My Lord Beloved and Honoured in the Bowels of Christ, My Holy Brother and Fellow-Presbyter, Augustin Sends Greetin
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On the Profit of Believing · Augustine of Hippo
7. And further, analogy, whereby the agreement of both Testaments is plainly seen, why shall I say that all have made use of, to whose authority they yield; whereas it is in their power to consider wi
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Sect. II. — BUT what will you say to these your declarations, when, be it remembered, they are not confined to “Free-will” only, but apply to all doctrines in general throughout the world — that, “if
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If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
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Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
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