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Within [[Christianity]], some mainstream [[Evangelical]] and [[Protestant]] groups adhere to the inerrancy of [[scripture]] as it reads today. However, some{{who|date=August 2017}} note that "Evangelical scholars&nbsp;... doubt that accepting the doctrine of biblical inerrancy is the best way to assert their belief in biblical authority".<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica'', "Evangelicalism".</ref>
 
The [[Catholic Church]]'s view was authoritatively expressed by the [[Second Vatican Council]], citing earlier declarations, in the following terms: "Since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation."<ref name=DV11>[httphttps://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html Second Vatican Council, ''Dei Verbum'' (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation), 11] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531175312/httphttps://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html |date=May 31, 2014 }}</ref> The Council added: "Since God speaks in Sacred Scripture through men in human fashion, the interpreter of Sacred Scripture, in order to see clearly what God wanted to communicate to us, should carefully investigate what meaning the sacred writers really intended, and what God wanted to manifest by means of their words."<ref>''Dei Verbum'', 12</ref>
 
Some literalist or conservative Christians teach that the Bible lacks error in every way in all matters: chronology, history, biology, sociology, psychology, politics, physics, math, art, and so on.<ref name="inerrancy" /> Other Christians believe that the scriptures are always right (do not err) only in fulfilling their primary purpose: revealing God, God's vision, God's purposes, and God's good news to humanity.<ref name="Tolerance">
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* [[Bart D. Ehrman]] (2003). ''Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew''. Oxford University Press, Inc. {{ISBN|0-19-518249-9}}
* [[Charles Caldwell Ryrie]] (1981). ''What you should know about inerrancy''. {{ISBN|0-8024-8785-8}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140531175312/httphttps://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651118_dei-verbum_en.html Dei Verbum] Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (1965)
* Ethelbert W. Bullinger, ''Figures of Speech Used in the Bible'' Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1970.
* [[Gleason Archer]] (2001). ''New Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties''. {{ISBN|0-310-24146-4}}
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== External links ==
* [httphttps://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s1c2a3.htm#104 Catholic Church beliefs of the Bible]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20010509124520/http://pcusa.org/101/101-bible.htm Presbyterian Church USA beliefs of the Bible]