About Biblical Inerrance

Probably, you don’t know me until few moments. My name is Rodrigo. I’m twenty-three years old. I studied in Brasilia (the capital of Brazil) at Baptist University of Brasilia and at Presbyterian Seminary. But, during the rest of my life, I studied in Pio XII. I am a young agnostic who already read the Bible more than thirty times. During five years, I was locked at my bed room reading books about The Bible. I would like to explain my comments concerning the subject matter, textual criticism, with the sensitivity that it requires.

In John 1, we have the assertion that Jesus is The Word, Logos, Miltha, Davar, Verbum of God. Even though the pericope is written in the form of poetry and it was taken from an Aramaic hymn with all exegesis implications arising from the lyrical language, actually, The Bible works with the idea that Lord Jesus Christ is the Word of God (Verbum Dei). The Bible refers to itself as Sacreds Scriptures (biblorum Sacrorum), Scripture, and several other ways, but The Word of God is Jesus Christ. People who call the Bible as Word of God are ignorant. While a million variants contradict the bible, this will be irrelevant to doctrines of fide cristianae. However, the bible be called as Word of God is necessary to bibles experts be exalted in a condition beyond humanity, when, in fact, they are men in state of decadence.

It is necessary to consider the unpleasant situations that we should avoid, we don’t want that a crisis doctrinaire cause religious hysteria in the world. This could influence the lives of pastors, scholars of textual criticism, writers, photographers of manuscripts…