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