an eschatological note to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. The doctrine does not require all difficulties to be settled immediately. It is just conceivable that in any particular case of difficulty all the relevant facts are not yet known. Once again, the warning is not to declare the question settled too quickly—in one direction or another. However, this eschatological perspective takes us further. Scripture plays a role in the larger purposes of God, which reach their fulfillment only in the