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See [[Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)]].
See [[Revelation, Book of (historical exegesis)]].
==The Importance of Inerrancy In the Field of [[Hermeneutics]]==
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! style="font-size:120%; background:lightblue; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | On alleged "contradictions" in the [[Bible]]
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| style="padding:15px;" |''“[People] do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them.”''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— E. Paul Hovey<ref>{{cite web |title=Quotes from E. Paul Hovey |author=E. Paul Hovey |publisher=Goodreads |date= |url=https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/28909-people-do-not-reject-the-bible-because-it-contradicts-itself |accessdate=17 March 2024}}</ref></div>
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The issue of inerrancy is important in the field of hermeneutics<ref name="Virkler2007">{{cite book |title=Hermeneutics: Principles and Processes of Biblical Interpretation |author=Henry A. Virkler and K.G. Ayayo |publisher=Baker Publishing Group |year=2007 |pages=29-30 |isbn=9781441200457 |quote= |url=http://www.christianbook.com/hermeneutics-principles-processes-interpretation-second-edition/henry-virkler/9780801031380/pd/031380}}</ref> as outlined in the below table:
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! Presuppositional bases !! Consequence for our attitude towards an <span style="color:darkviolet;">apparent discrepancy</span> between two or more texts !! The different results in approach to <span style="color:darkblue;">theological analysis</span>, we assume that:
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| Scripture '''<span style="color:red;">does</span>''' contain errors || We may decide that one or both of them contain(s) errors || The texts may represent a ''diversity of thought'' occasioned by errors
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| Scripture '''<span style="color:red;">does not</span>''' contain errors || We are motivated to seek an exegetically justifiablę way of resolving any seeming discrepancy || The teaching of the various texts, properly interpreted, represents a ''unity of thought''
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According to Harold Lindsell, the church history has repeatedly shown that groups who begin with questioning the validity of minor details of Scripture eventually question major doctrines as well. The pattern repeated is that acceptance of an errant Scripture in peripheral matters has soon been followed by the allegation that Scripture is errant in more central teachings as well.<ref name="Lindsell">{{cite book |title=The Battle for the Bible |author=Harold Lindsell |chapter= |pages=141-160 |publisher=Zondervan Publishing House |year=1976 |isbn=9780310276814 |url=https://www.google.sk/books/edition/The_Battle_for_the_Bible/-bnYAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
==Liberal Christianity and Biblical Inerrancy==
==Liberal Christianity and Biblical Inerrancy==