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Inerrancy Thesis
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Thesis
Inerrancy

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Laurie Pelosi
April 11, 2017

With certainty we all come to a time when facing our faith, religious beliefs and thoughts have to be taken with seriousness. At the core is our Christian doctrine which we see grounded in the Bible? Further we as Christians must develop our theological beliefs based on truths of Scripture. Truth on the matter of inerrancy does concern us all. The Reformers could affirm the truthfulness of the Bible and they always acknowledged errors but explained them with scribing errors.
Inspiration and Inerrancy then are directly associated with bibliology, the doctrine of the Bible. In view of orthodoxy every Christian doctrine whether we are studying God, sin or salvation is drawn toward the
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