“Perhaps the most striking problem with the rationalistic implication concerning inerrancy is that it limits God. It assumes that God can only act in a way that conforms to our expectations, based on our human assessment of his character.” – McGowan, The Divine Authenticity of Scripture, 118
James W. Scott really couldn’t have responded to this [...]

The Inerrancy of the Autographa?
I refused to support the Chicago Statement of Inerrancy for a number of years because A) I hadn’t looked into it enough, and B) I didn’t understand why the inerrancy of the autographa (original manuscripts of the Bible) really mattered, since we don’t have them anyway. And, wasn’t “inerrancy” just a [...]

Typical, Repetitive, Baseless Assertions
We’ve already documented that it is false to assert that Kuyper, Bavinck, and Calvin did not hold to what conservative scholars would today call “the doctrine of inerrancy.” Scriptural inerrancy is not a new invention and it is not an unfair conclusion to draw given the nature, inspiration, and the truthfulness of [...]

Introduction
As I planned in the intro to this series, it’s time to engage in some serious apologetic issues regarding the doctrine of inerrancy by examining a handful of blunders made by A.T.B. McGowan’s The Divine Authenticity of Scripture: Retrieving an Evangelical Heritage (2007).
The ultimate purpose of this review series is to uphold the truth of [...]

We live in the 21st century.
21 centuries is a long, long time.
Believers stand on a mountain of stories, adventures, trials, errors, wisdom, knowledge, growth, prosperity, setbacks, wars, romances, arguments, failed arguments, doctrinal development, and doctrinal decline. But, of course, none of that is of any use if we fail to remember or simply ignore what [...]

Bavinck and Reformed Theology
Like John Calvin, Herman Bavinck is one of the greatest theologians who has ever lived. And just as some scholars like to re-write history and assert things about Calvin that aren’t true, so it is with unintentionally and sometimes intentionally misinterpreting Herman Bavinck. Granted, Calvin was much more influential in terms of [...]

Before going any further in this series, it might be wise to reiterate what exactly we mean by “inerrancy.” Several notable Reformed scholars give straight definitions:
“Scripture is inerrant, not in the sense of being absolutely precise by modern standards, but in the sense of making good its claims and achieving that measure of focused truth [...]