Inerrancy In The Bible

The word "inerrancy" as defined in the dictionary means "that which does not err or is free from errors." The term "Biblical Inerrancy" is frequently used by the conservative and fundamentalist Christian religions, which specifically claims that the scriptures as written in the Holy Bible to be authentic, factual and entirely absent of any errors. For centuries the biblical stories of the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and The Flood, Tower of Babel along with others were believed by Hebrews and Christians to be factual history. Beginning in later 1800 to 1900AD, these stories began to be thought as legends instead of credible history. This change of believe from non-fiction to fiction questioned the authenticity of the bible along with organized
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The goal of those participating in Biblical Inerrancy is to defend the scriptures within the Holy Bible. The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy was developed, in 1978AD, by 300 evangelical scholars in which their Article X states,

"We affirm that inspiration, strictly speaking, applies only to the autographic text of Scripture, which in the providence of God can be ascertained from available manuscripts with great accuracy. We further affirm that copies and translations of Scripture are the Word of God to the extent that they faithfully represent the original. We deny that any essential element of the Christian faith is affected by the absence of the autographs. We further deny that this absence renders the assertion of Biblical inerrancy invalid or irrelevant."

Those who believe in the inerrancy of the Holy Bible do so because the Holy Bible was inspired by God and the writers were influenced by God, which can be found in the New Testament, 2 Timothy 3:16, with its explanation of why any and all scriptures written in the Holy Bible are free of
The Christians who are more mainline have the opinion that even though the Holy Bible expresses the will of God there are parts that need to be reconsidered because of the changing of our culture and civlization. Those Christians who are more liberal and progressive have the opinion that the Holy Bible more than likely was written by those who wanted to promote their own specific religious beliefs and values. Also, it is their opinion that the Holy Bible does contain factual errors and many consider God's will to be out of date such as religious genocide, Creation verses evolution, slavery, women's equality, discrimination of sexual preferences, tolerance of religious minorities, torturing of prisoners, death penalty and