>BTW, is it considered an errrancy if you
misppell inerrent?<
Yes, which is precisely why we need a doctrine of inerrancy!
That's logic, pal.
<<BTW, if you try to find the word inerrant in the Bible you'll
also be out of luck, in addition to being suspicious and
heretical>>
Well, try to find the word "Trinity." You won't find the word, but you'll
find the doctrine.
Inerrancy is like that, and is tied up with "inspiration," which you WILL
find. As one commentator puts it:
<<Thus, inspired Scripture is written revelation, just as the prophetsā
sermons were spoken revelation. The biblical record of Godās
self-disclosure in redemptive history is not merely human testimony to
revelation, but is itself revelation. The inspiring of Scripture was an
integral part in the revelatory process, for in Scripture God gave the
church his saving work in history, and his own authoritative interpretation
of its place in his eternal plan. ĪThus saith the Lordā could be prefixed
to each book of Scripture with no less propriety than it is (359 times) to
individual prophetic utterances which Scripture contains. Inspiration,
therefore, guarantees the truth of all that the Bible asserts, just as the
inspiration of the prophets guaranteed the truth of their representation of
the mind of God. (ĪTruthā here denotes correspondence between the words of
man and the thoughts of God, whether in the realm of fact or of meaning.)
As truth from God, manās Creator and rightful King, biblical instruction,
like prophetic oracles, carries divine authority.
The idea of canonical Scripture, i.e. of a document or corpus of documents
containing a permanent authoritative record of divine revelation, goes back
to Mosesā writing of Godās law in the wilderness (Ex. 34:27f.; Dt. 31:9ff.,
24ff.). The truth of all statements, historical or theological, which
Scripture makes, and their authority as words of God, are assumed without
question or discussion in both Testaments. The Canon grew, but the concept
of inspiration, which the idea of canonicity presupposes, was fully
developed from the first, and is unchanged throughout the Bible. As there
presented, it comprises two convictions.
The New Bible Dictionary, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers,
Inc.) 1962.