een God and Biblical text being programmatic and definite. The resonance of the divine voice helps account for deviations, perhaps minor, that can be seen in the gospels' accounts of the biography of Jesus. Even so, authenticity is important, and attentiveness to the correct rendition of the Word is valuable.
Belief in inerrancy involves an advance commitment to receive as from God all that the Bible, interpreting itself to us through the Holy Spirit in a natural and coherent way, teaches. Thus it shapes our understanding of biblical authority.
So inerrantists should welcome the work of textual scholars, who are forever trying to eliminate the inauthentic and give us exactly what the biblical writers wrote, neither more nor less The way into God's mind is through his penmen's minds, precisely as expressed, under his guidance, in their own words as they wrote them.
The original writers of Biblical texts had an impulse to make sense of their world by way of their relationship to God. The texts that became th
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