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Line 301: These views are shared by many Church officials and as a result are taken for granted in some Church documents. For instance: * An official report (1999) on theological conversations between the [[US Conference of Catholic Bishops]] and the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], to be found on the website of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops:<ref>{{Cite web \|date=September 10, 1999 \|title=Report on Sacred Scripture \|url=https://www.usccb.org/resources/Report-on-Sacred-Scripture.pdf ~~{{Bare URL PDF~~\|~~date~~website=~~March~~United States Conference of Catholic ~~2022~~Bishops}}</ref>{{pb}}{{quote\|For Roman Catholics, inerrancy is understood as a consequence of biblical inspiration; it has to do more with the truth of the Bible as a whole than with any theory of verbal inerrancy. Vatican II says that "the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching firmly, faithfully, and without error that truth which God wanted put into the sacred writings for the sake of our salvation" (Dei verbum 11). What is important is the qualification of "that truth" with "for the sake of our salvation."}} * A 2005 "teaching document" issued by the Bishops' Conferences of England and Wales, and of Scotland, entitled ''The Gift of Scripture'':<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2005 \|title=The Gift of Scripture \|url=https://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Resources/Scripture/GoS.pdf ~~{{Bare~~\|website=Liturgy ~~URL~~Office ~~PDF~~\|~~date~~isbn=~~March~~1 86082 323 ~~2022~~8}}</ref>{{pb}}{{quote\|14.{{nbsp}}[...] The books thus declared canonical and inspired by the Spirit of God contain 'the truth which God wished to be set down in the sacred writings for the sake of our salvation' (Dei verbum 11). It is important to note this teaching of the Second Vatican Council that the truth of Scripture is to be found in all that is written down 'for the sake of our salvation'. We should not expect total accuracy from the Bible in other, secular matters. We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision.}} * The {{lang\|la\|instrumentum laboris}} (working paper) for the 2008 Synod of Bishops on the Word of God:<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/synod/documents/rc_synod_doc_20080511_instrlabor-xii-assembly_en.html\|title = The Word of God in the life and mission of the Church}}</ref>{{pb}}{{quote\|15.{{nbsp}}[...] even though all parts of Sacred Scripture are divinely inspired, inerrancy applies only to 'that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation" (DV 11).{{efn\|The English translation on the Vatican website has been corrected here to bring it in line with the official Latin text: {{lang\|la\|"quamvis omnes Sacrae Scripturae partes divinitus inspiratae sint, tamen eius inerrantia pertinet tantummodo ad «veritatem, quam Deus nostrae salutis causa Litteris Sacris consignari voluit»}} (DV 11)"}}}}

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