![]() After all, what good is it hold-ing to inspired and inerrant autographs, if what most Christians today call the Bible is a translation of handwritten manuscripts, which were copied hundreds if not thousands of times? Or to put in the words of one of the most prominent spokesmen against the reliabil-ity of the New Testament, Bart Ehrman, “The fact that we don’t have the words surely must show, I reasoned, that he did not preserve them for us. ![]() ![]() Still, many of those who wholeheartedly espouse inerrancy struggle mightily with the problem of the preservation of the inspired and inerrant originals as well as the ques-tion of the transmission of the text of the New Testament. Despite a conscious effort by many prominent scholars in the English speaking Evangelical academia to portray inerran-cy as an unnecessary and even embarrassing vestige of early American Fundamentalism, a significant number of conservative Evangelical believers, especially in Eastern Europe, do not question the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. While it may not seem as important to groups that have other sources of authority (such as Roman Catholics and Eastern Ortho-dox), for Evangelical Christians the matter of the Bible’s truthfulness, trustworthiness and authority cannot be marginalized or ranked as secondary. Inerrancy and the Transmission of the New Testament Mykola Leliovskyi Any way you slice it, the issue of biblical inerrancy is of crucial importance to those whose sole rule of faith and practice is the Bible.
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