But this creates all kinds of problems.

If the scriptures we have today are inerrant, which ones? The ones that include the Comma Johanneum, or the ones that don't for example. Are translations inerrant? For those of us who don't know Greek if they are not then we are left without a final authority (or one that we don't have access to which is just as bad). Those who wrote the Chicago Statement seem to have recognized this problem when they wrote "We affirm that inspiration, strictly speaking, applies only to the autographic text of Scripture, which in the providence of God can be ascertained from available manuscripts with great accuracy. We further affirm that copies and translations of Scripture are the Word of God to the extent that they faithfully represent the original." But as you have agreed with that doesn't provide for a final authority.

It honestly seems that only something like a KJVO position could provide for both a final authority and do away with the annoying questions the regard different greek readings and translations.

Bryan
SDG

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Bryan Neufeld
Faith Community Church
Manitoba, Canada