[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.] The Errors of Inerrancy: #3. Inerrancy Censors the Bible’s Capacity for Error. Introduction What harm is there in believing that the Bible might be Inerrant? In most cases, Biblical Inerrancy is a relatively harmless foreign praxis applied to the Holy Scriptures that forces theologians to defend absurd answers to “Bible Difficulties” (e.g. see the preposterous explanations for how the wrong priest was named in Mark 2:26 or how the wrong prophet was cited in Matt 27:9-10). In other cases, this praxis becomes harmful because, by not acknowledging any errors exist in the Scriptures, a theologian is forced to affirm an error (i.e. Bible Difficulty), and then must reorient their entire theology around that error to harmonize with it and avoid admitting the error exists. In the worst cases, Biblical Inerrancy forces theologians to defend detrimental errors in order to avoid admitting that there is an isolated and spurious error in the Scriptures. For example, Wolfhart Pannenberg believes that the Word of God opposes patriarchy, but he said “that the Biblical tradition has legitimized a patriarchal order of the family” in not only the Old Testament, but also in the New … Continue reading The Errors of Inerrancy: #3 Inerrancy Censors the Bible’s Capacity for Error