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Biblical Errancy: An Analysis of its Philosophical Roots is unavailable, but you can change that!

Philosophy has given us insights into the reflections of thinkers on such subjects as God, mankind, the world, and the possibility of knowing ultimate reality. The processes of reasoning and the conclusions of logic are often intensely fascinating. Dr. Geisler reminds us, however, that the premises and the arguments of philosophy are often faulty, leading to a wholly inadequate view of knowledge...

modern errancy are to be found in the philosophical soil of the seventeenth century.1 From here the errancy position has spread gradually down through the centuries to our own day. FRANCIS BACON—INDUCTIVISM* About one hundred years after the Reformation, Francis Bacon (1561–1626) published his famous Novum Organum (1620) in which he set the stage for modern biblical criticism and the denial of the full authority and inerrancy of the Bible. Inerrancy is undermined in several ways in this work. Bacon
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