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Infallibility and inerrancy refer to the original texts of the Bible. Scholars who are proponents of biblical inerrancy acknowledge the potential for human error in transmission and translation, and therefore only affirm as the Word of God translations that "faithfully represent the original".<ref>"[http://www.churchcouncil.org/ICCP_org/Documents_ICCP/English/01_Biblical_Inerrancy_A&D.pdf Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy]", Article X ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130826055225/http://churchcouncil.org/ICCP_org/Documents_ICCP/English/01_Biblical_Inerrancy_A&D.pdf Archive])</ref>
=== Literalism ===
While a great many Christian thinkers and organizations have conflated the two, believing that the Biblical canon is without transcription error is fundamentally distinct than seeing that all of it or most of it has to be taken literally, which is known simply as [[Biblical literalism]]. Inerrancy does not inherently imply literalism. For example, Christian scholars such as [[Saint Augustine]] and Christian religious leaders such as [[Pope Benedict XVI]] have held that the [[Genesis]] account of the creation of the Earth is [[Allegorical interpretations of Genesis|true metaphorically]], in the sense of God creating everything in reality with love and making mankind in His image as being fundamentally good, without being true in exact literal terms, God did not necessarily create modern day birds before He created human beings, even while they have accepted the Bible as infallible. Figures such as [[Scot McKnight]] have argued that the Bible clearly transcends multiple [[Genre|genres]] and a Hebrew prose [[Poetry|poems]] cannot be evaluated by a reader the same as a science [[textbook]].<ref>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/05/how-do-we-know-when/</ref>
== Criticism ==
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