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Originally Posted by Bryan  The majority of evangelical Christians will affirm that scripture is
inerrant and infallible in the original autographs, but must not the scriptures that we have today be inerrant and infallible if we want a firm basis from which to do apologetics from? |
Yes
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Originally Posted by Bryan If they are not doesn't that reduce apologetics down to a probability game where we make guesses as to what we think the inerrant and infallible scripture said? |
Yes
There must be an authority. It is either Christ through the scriptures or Christ through the Church. Anything else would reduce the Holy Spirit to being (God forbid) schizophrenic, chaotic and confused.
Who is to say anyone is right if the scriptures are not inerrant and infallible?
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Christopher Reeder
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