Biblical inerrancy: Difference between revisions

'''Textus Receptus'''. A minority of biblical inerrantists go further than the Chicago Statement, arguing that the original text has been perfectly preserved and passed down through time. This is sometimes called "''Textus Receptus'' Onlyism", as it is believed the Greek text by this name (Latin for received text) is a perfect and inspired copy of the original and supersedes earlier manuscript copies. This position is based on the idea that only the original language God spoke in is inspired, and that God was pleased to preserve that text throughout history by the hands of various scribes and copyists. Thus the ''Textus Receptus'' acts as the inerrant source text for translations to modern languages. For example, in Spanish-speaking cultures the commonly accepted "KJV-equivalent" is the [[Reina-Valera]] 1909 revision (with different groups accepting, in addition to the 1909 or in its place, the revisions of 1862 or 1960). The [[New King James Version]] was also translated from the ''Textus Receptus''.

 

 

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