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\"Inerrancy<\/p>\n

Inerrancy is only ever used to defend sin, whether that sin happens to be the enslavement of other human beings or the inappropriate exaltation of one\u2019s own thinking.<\/p>\n

(The above words are from a comment I composed on Facebook, in a conversation discussing Biblical inerrancy.)<\/p>\n

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Inerrancy is only ever used to defend sin, whether that sin happens to be the enslavement of other human beings or the inappropriate exaltation of one\u2019s own thinking. 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