Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy 11
Monday, April 19, 2010 at 10:25PM 
What do Christians mean when they say the Bible is inerrant? The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy tells us what leading inerrantist mean by inerrancy. I’ll be posting a section of this statement each week until I’ve posted the whole thing.
You can read previously posted sections of this statement in by clicking here. After a preface and a short statement, the Chicago Statement contains a section called Articles of Affirmation and Denial.
Article IX.
We affirm that inspiration, though not conferring omniscience, guaranteed true and trustworthy utterance on all matters of which the Biblical authors were moved to speak and write.
We deny that the finitude or fallenness of these writers, by necessity or otherwise, introduced distortion or falsehood into God’s Word.
Reader Comments (1)
Interestingly they are declaring inerrant a nonexistent text. By this I mean that if you pull the undefined "right pieces" from "the right undefined extant manuscripts" you arrive at "the scriptures" that are "inerrant."
So if an Eastern Orthodox signs this, or a Catholic, or a Jew, or a Mormon, or a KJV onlyist... they can do so with absolute conviction, equally, but referring to different pieces from different manuscripts!
This is just another tool to establish a test for "Orthodoxy" and serves no real non-political purpose.