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Originally Posted by greenbaggins  It should also be pointed out that the usual description of inerrant means "without error in the original autographs." I know that some on this board would probably dispute that. Nevertheless, transcriptional errors are described this way. I agree with the definition of inerrant as without errors, and infallible as incapable of error, the latter term being far more exalted and implying the former. | I was waiting for someone to point this out, and agree entirely. In the original text, there were no transcriptional errors, and thus the text was inerrant. I was speaking of my copy of the NKJV, which is not inerrant. But the original manuscripts certainly were both inerrant and infallible.
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