Inerrancy debate never goes away, Mohler says

Inerrancy is never a settled issue. The debate will never go away, said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

"It comes part-and-parcel with the modern world. Modernity itself presents a set of issues that are going to have to be answered one way or another," Mohler said. "Thus, we'll land either in the affirmation of inerrancy or in some other place. I think inerrancy continues to be a defining issue for what evangelical integrity requires."

Mohler, as a contributor to a new book, "Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy," defines and defends the doctrine of inerrancy as articulated in the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy.

The Chicago Statement is the preeminent evangelical explanation and affirmation of the doctrine of inerrancy of the Scriptures. Nearly 300 evangelical scholars, including Carl F. H. Henry, J.I. Packer, Francis Schaeffer, R.C. Sproul, James Montgomery Boice and others signed the statement in 1978.  Keep reading