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By the time of the [[Reformation]], there was still no official doctrine of inerrancy. Although the term was not used, some scholars argue the Reformers did believe in the concept of inerrancy.<ref name=geisler>Geisler, Norman L., ''Decide for Yourself: How History Views the Bible'', Zondervan, 1982, 39. </ref>
For [[Martin Luther]] (1483–1546), for example, "inspiration did not insure inerrancy in all details. Luther recognizes mistakes and inconsistencies in Scripture and treated them with lofty indifference because they did not touch the heart of the Gospel."<ref name="cambible">Bainton, "The Bible in the Reformation," in ed. Greenslade, S. L., ''The Cambridge History of the Bible Vol. 3: The West from the Reformation to the Present'', Cambridge University Press, 1963, 12–13.</ref> When Matthew appears to confuse [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] with [[Book of Zechariah|Zechariah]] in Matthew 27:9,<ref>{{bibleverse|Matthew|27:9}}</ref> Luther wrote that "Such points do not bother me particularly."<ref name="cambible" /> However, other Luther scholars have pointed out that Luther, in other places, said the Scripture cannot contradict itself.<ref name=Preus>Preus, Robert D. "Luther and Biblical Infallibility," in ed. Hannah, John D., ''Inerrancy and the Church'', Moody Press, 1984, 134-135.</ref> Luther said in regards to whether the Bible had errors or not, "the Scriptures cannot err."<ref name=Luther>Luther, Martin ''Sämtliche Schriften, herausgegeben von Johann Georg Walch, 2. Auflage'', Concordia, 1818-1930, 19:1073.</ref> Other statements made by Luther seem to contradict that, e.g. he stated that he found numerous errors in the Bible [the Protestant canon — n.n.], and lambasted a couple of books of the Bible as worthless; he also stated that his idea of Christ trumps the letter of the Scripture.<ref name="Dorrien 2000 p. 112">{{cite book | last=Dorrien | first=Garry J. | title=The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology: Theology Without Weapons | publisher=Westminster John Knox Press | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-664-22151-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2l0sc8wekwC&pg=PA112 | access-date=30 August 2020 | page=112}}</ref>
The [[Christian humanism|Christian humanist]] and one of the leading scholars of the [[northern Renaissance]], [[Erasmus]] (1466–1536), was also unconcerned with minor errors not impacting theology, and at one point, thought that Matthew mistook one word for another. In a letter to [[Johannes Eck]], Erasmus wrote that "Nor, in my view, would the authority of the whole of Scripture be instantly imperiled, as you suggest, if an evangelist by a slip of memory did put one name for another, Isaiah for instance instead of Jeremiah, for this is not a point on which anything turns."<ref name="wood" />
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