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Many people misunderstand the term biblical inerrancy.  What does it mean and how does it apply to my Christian sanctification?

Just like changing the definition of marriage, gender, pastor, evangelical, and church, the progressive liberal Christianism like to change the definition of biblical inerrancy.  

When you follow a bit of reasoning, it is easy to understand.  "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work" (2 Tim. 3-16-17).  What this means is that God authored the bible through prophets and apostles.  God is goodness, perfect, unchanging and eternal.  Since God is the source of goodness and perfection, how can the good God introduces errors?

The scripture doesn't change because God breathed it.  Once God breathe out something, it doesn't change.  The instruction to the church was the same in the 1st century as is in the 21st century.  If you believe that the interpretation of the written scripture should apply differently in the 21st century United States or Korea where illiteracy among men and women are almost non-existent, then you are believing that God's instruction to the church changes over time.  If it changed, why do we still need to have churches or pastors? It is 21st century after all where we all know how to read and write or watch great sermons from the Internet?  Why do we even bother with living holy lives when it will change in next 40 or 100 years?

The interpretation of the bible changes based on your experience (empiricism) in something.  The fallacy of this logic is the reversing the situation.  If someone else never experienced the same thing as you, then should that person interpret the bible differently than you? The bible interpretation of the bible cannot change and should be based on the original intent of the author. It's interpretation is objective and not subjective.

God ordained the scripture to be unbroken as written in John 10:35 (... "Scripture cannot be broken").  Man dies.  The creation itself is corrupted through one man's sin.  But God guard his breathed out Word.  It is his promise and he faithfully keeps his promise.  If the scripture is broken, then why do we even bother studying the bible or even try to live it's teaching?  How do we know which part is broken and which is part has continued accurately?  Anyone who thinks that the scripture may have lost its continuity over time, then he should be asking "how do you know in the first place that it is broken?"  Did a perfect God revealed that to him personally or did his sinful and corrupt logic assumed that God doesn't have the power to continue his Word for all generations?

When God commanded be meek and humble, he is referring to man's assumption of God's sovereignty.  The greatest arrogance comes from thinking that somehow, we can make "improvements" to God inspired scripture.  That is what Adam and Eve did... they wanted to become like God.

For those of you want clear understanding of the biblical inerrancy, you can get that from 1978 Chicago Council of Biblical inerrancy (http://library.dts.edu/Pages/TL/Special/ICBI_1.pdf).