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“Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.”

Quote by D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson is a prominent writer and scholar in the fields of religion, theology, and literature. His works cover a wide range of topics from biblical studies to Christian theology, and are highly appreciated by readers. more

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