Chapter 5

Question 1

The original copy of a Biblical document

Answer 1

Autograph

Question 2

A term used by some people who, denying the inerrancy of the Bible, claim that the Bible’s purpose is only to tell us about these two subjects.

Answer 2

Faith and Practice

Question 3

This organization drafted the “Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy” in 1978 that affirmed the inerrancy of Scripture and defined what most evangelicals understand by the term inerrancy.

Answer 3

International Council on Biblical Inerrancy

Question 4

The idea that Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to the fact

Answer 4

Inerrancy

Question 5

The idea that Scripture is not able to lead us astray in matters of faith and practice

Answer 5

Infallibility

Question 6

Occurrences of different words in different ancient copies of the same verse of Scripture.

Answer 6

Textual Variants

Question 7

How can Jehovah’s Witnesses say that the Bible is inerrant while they themselves have so many false teachings?

Answer 7

They use NWT. They do not believe in the Trinity.

Question 8

Describe inerrancy and the Bible.

Answer 8

1) The Bible can be inerrant and still speak in the ordinary language of everyday speech.
2) The Bible can be inerrant and still include loose or free quotations.
3) It is consistent with inerrancy to have unusual or uncommon grammatical construction in the Bible.

Question 9

What are the 6 challenges to inerrancy?

Answer 9

1) The Bible is only authoritative for “faith and practice”
2) The term inerrancy is a poor term.
3) We have no inerrant manuscripts; therefore walk about an inerrant Bible is misleading.
4) The Biblical writers “accommodated” their messages in minor details to the false ideas current in their day and affirmed or taught those ideas in an incidental way.
5) Inerrancy overemphasizes the Divine aspect of Scripture and neglects the human aspect.
6) There are some clear errors in the Bible.

Question 10

What are 4 problems with denying inerrancy?

Answer 10

1) If we deny inerrancy, a serious moral problem confronts us: May we imitate God and intentionally lie in small matters also? (Ephesians 5:1)
2) If inerrancy is denied we begin to wonder if we can really trust God in anything He says.
3) If we deny inerrancy, we essentially make our own human minds a higher standard of truth that God’s Word.
4) If we deny inerrancy, then we must also say that the Bible is wrong not only in minor details but some of its doctrines as well.