Within the last fifty years, due to increased Christian debates over the truthfulness of Scripture, a vocabulary has evolved to summarize various claims about the Bible’s truthfulness. Below are some of the terms that are regularly used. • Inerrant/Inerrancy. The doctrine of inerrancy, or the claim that the Scriptures are inerrant, means that the Bible is completely truthful in all things that the biblical authors assert—whether in geographic, chronological, or theological details. Advocates of inerrancy