1/18 People really don't understand how Jewish textual analysis works, because we swim in the giant fishbowl of Christianity and have been tainted by the mindboggling idiocy of Biblical inerrancy as some Protestant heretics understand it (inerrancy is idolatry).
March 22, 2024 at 12:20 PM
1/18 People really don't understand how Jewish textual analysis works, because we swim in the giant fishbowl of Christianity and have been tainted by the mindboggling idiocy of Biblical inerrancy as some Protestant heretics understand it (inerrancy is idolatry).
among the more traditionalist wing of evangelicals (and some Catholics), the idea that the Biblical tradition evolved is at odds with the inerrancy they want scripture to hold
March 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
among the more traditionalist wing of evangelicals (and some Catholics), the idea that the Biblical tradition evolved is at odds with the inerrancy they want scripture to hold
See also: biblical inerrancy.
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
See also: biblical inerrancy.
Atheists, please stop doing Biblical inerrancy.
The question is why you would privilege information about Pharisees that comes from Christians. Why would you make that choice?
December 24, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Atheists, please stop doing Biblical inerrancy.
Everyone wants to talk about inerrancy & biblical literalism until the hot eye pokers and tent pegs come out.
June 13, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Everyone wants to talk about inerrancy & biblical literalism until the hot eye pokers and tent pegs come out.
getting a PhD, imo, is more about endurance than brilliance, or even originality. this isn't to say many PhDs aren't super smart--only that it's not some mark of inerrancy.
June 22, 2024 at 3:26 PM
getting a PhD, imo, is more about endurance than brilliance, or even originality. this isn't to say many PhDs aren't super smart--only that it's not some mark of inerrancy.
I was thinking the other day that a more talmudic tradition of commentary on the text throughout the millennia would have a better result than biblical inerrancy + storefront evangelicalism
September 28, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I was thinking the other day that a more talmudic tradition of commentary on the text throughout the millennia would have a better result than biblical inerrancy + storefront evangelicalism
Christian Fundamentalism: Biblical Inerrancy
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Christian Fundamentalism: Biblical Inerrancy
Admin V talks about the first and main tenet of Christian Fundamentalism and why it matters.
open.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Christian Fundamentalism: Biblical Inerrancy
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open.substack.com/pub/sonsofli...
You can understand the decline in Christianity through the history of their schisms; from Christological disputes over the paradox of the Trinity, to "is the Pope our boss?" to Biblical literalism and the inerrancy of scripture to "girls are icky".
most evangelicals can't tell you why they aren't a member of a church whose founder killed theirs with a hammer in the Holy Roman Empire in 1583 over something stupider than the filioque, which is in one sense an improvement but in another just means that they don't actually believe anything
The total lack of commitment to and general lack of interest in dogma is one of the major reasons I fell away from the faith
I suppose not having any concrete teachings is a way to solve that problem
I suppose not having any concrete teachings is a way to solve that problem
July 3, 2026 at 3:26 AM
You can understand the decline in Christianity through the history of their schisms; from Christological disputes over the paradox of the Trinity, to "is the Pope our boss?" to Biblical literalism and the inerrancy of scripture to "girls are icky".
Nothing says "Biblical inerrancy" like the KJB Bible
July 23, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Nothing says "Biblical inerrancy" like the KJB Bible
(Nevermind that whole thing in the Bible about how no one can know the day of the Lord in advance. That's *obviously* an exception to the whole "biblical inerrancy" thing while the obscure interpretation of 50 unconnected verses is the literal truth.)
July 5, 2026 at 7:26 AM
(Nevermind that whole thing in the Bible about how no one can know the day of the Lord in advance. That's *obviously* an exception to the whole "biblical inerrancy" thing while the obscure interpretation of 50 unconnected verses is the literal truth.)
this is such a great summation of what inerrancy is
AND not for nuthin’, but the inerrantist position isn’t really conservative, it’s a defensive 20th century innovation to keep a naive mechanistic worldview (descended from the Enlightenment) while maintaining a Protestantism with a Bible but no living church tradition or tradition of interpretation.
March 16, 2026 at 1:11 AM
this is such a great summation of what inerrancy is
Recovering (or Not) from Inerrancy: Two Stories scotmcknight.substack.com/p/recovering...
Recovering (or Not) from Inerrancy: Two Stories
In Jason Hentschel’s new book, Desiring Certainty: The Making of Biblical Inerrancy (Eerdmans!), two major stories are told.
scotmcknight.substack.com
September 24, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Recovering (or Not) from Inerrancy: Two Stories scotmcknight.substack.com/p/recovering...
Fundamentalists committed to inerrancy and (what they believe is) literalism, you often see a very different dynamic. They’ll fight like hell, twist themselves in pretzels, to deny whatever it is counts as a real contradiction or falsehood. But if they DO admit it, often the worldview collapses.
March 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Fundamentalists committed to inerrancy and (what they believe is) literalism, you often see a very different dynamic. They’ll fight like hell, twist themselves in pretzels, to deny whatever it is counts as a real contradiction or falsehood. But if they DO admit it, often the worldview collapses.
Inerrancy is an ideological straitjacket that strips the Biblical text of meaning and mutes the voice of God in scripture.
Christian apologetics that are more geared towards hiding contradictions within the biblical canon (which do exist without posing a problem for people who aren’t wed to a farcical ideal of “inerrancy”) and “literal” interpretations are not at all what 1 Peter 3:15 is talkin bout.
December 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Inerrancy is an ideological straitjacket that strips the Biblical text of meaning and mutes the voice of God in scripture.
Another example of this: the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary requires all faculty to sign a statement affirming the inerrancy of the Bible. The progressive Presbyterian seminary across the street requires no such thing.
Yet which one do you think the “free speech” advocates would go after?
Yet which one do you think the “free speech” advocates would go after?
sometimes I think about this piece on how a christian college has mandatory flag worship and rifle practice and yet somehow never gets called out for lack of ideological diversity.
psmag.com/education/wh...
psmag.com/education/wh...
May 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Another example of this: the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary requires all faculty to sign a statement affirming the inerrancy of the Bible. The progressive Presbyterian seminary across the street requires no such thing.
Yet which one do you think the “free speech” advocates would go after?
Yet which one do you think the “free speech” advocates would go after?
Reminds me of a critique of Young Earth Creationism by other theologians; that by claiming that you can find scientific proof of the Inerrancy of the Bible, you are implicitly accepting that a different set of scientific proofs could disprove your faith in the Gospels.
i don't think that there is a single factual matter which could actually change one of my core belief, but as a correlary of this, it means my "core beliefs" are in fact extraordinarily limited
January 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Reminds me of a critique of Young Earth Creationism by other theologians; that by claiming that you can find scientific proof of the Inerrancy of the Bible, you are implicitly accepting that a different set of scientific proofs could disprove your faith in the Gospels.
The moment I abandoned the concept of "inerrancy" was the moment I could begin to hear God's voice speaking in the text of scripture.
November 27, 2024 at 11:46 PM
The moment I abandoned the concept of "inerrancy" was the moment I could begin to hear God's voice speaking in the text of scripture.
scriptural inerrancy: ❌
constitutional originalism: ❌
lo ba-shamayim hi: ✅
constitutional originalism: ❌
lo ba-shamayim hi: ✅
October 13, 2024 at 11:10 PM
scriptural inerrancy: ❌
constitutional originalism: ❌
lo ba-shamayim hi: ✅
constitutional originalism: ❌
lo ba-shamayim hi: ✅
It can be something totally trivial (“Did Jesus die on Passover, or the day before?”) that a less rigid believer would shrug off as unimportant. But for a worldview that insists on *absolute* inerrancy, if it can’t be rationalized away it’s a bullethole in the windshield.
March 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It can be something totally trivial (“Did Jesus die on Passover, or the day before?”) that a less rigid believer would shrug off as unimportant. But for a worldview that insists on *absolute* inerrancy, if it can’t be rationalized away it’s a bullethole in the windshield.
The memetic usage of 'biblically accurate' is a Jesuit plot (laudatory) to reinforce belief in the inerrancy of the Scriptures
August 27, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The memetic usage of 'biblically accurate' is a Jesuit plot (laudatory) to reinforce belief in the inerrancy of the Scriptures
I mean I get that "inerrancy over millennia" is kinda our thing but "continuous revelation via the Holy Spirit" is also our thing too
May 27, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I mean I get that "inerrancy over millennia" is kinda our thing but "continuous revelation via the Holy Spirit" is also our thing too
The Niagara Conference in the late 1800s established the "five fundamentals" usually associated with the movement (the virgin birth, the reality of the Gospels' miracles, the events of the crucifixion, the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, biblical inerrancy) but the inerrancy is the biggest
July 28, 2024 at 6:58 AM
The Niagara Conference in the late 1800s established the "five fundamentals" usually associated with the movement (the virgin birth, the reality of the Gospels' miracles, the events of the crucifixion, the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, biblical inerrancy) but the inerrancy is the biggest
fwiw i sort of understand this because evangelicals have been so successful with portraying their understanding of inerrancy + scripture as common sense that even people who disaffiliate from Christianity as a result of their evil actions think mainliners are just boneless evangelicals
March 19, 2026 at 1:41 PM
fwiw i sort of understand this because evangelicals have been so successful with portraying their understanding of inerrancy + scripture as common sense that even people who disaffiliate from Christianity as a result of their evil actions think mainliners are just boneless evangelicals
inerrancy and fundamentalism are such powerful drugs even atheists can’t resist them!
June 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
inerrancy and fundamentalism are such powerful drugs even atheists can’t resist them!