Catholic and evangelical theologians have used the incarnation as an analogy for inspiration. The 1942 papal encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu says, “For as the substantial Word of God became like to men in all things, ‘except sin,’ so the words of God, expressed in human language, are made like to human speech in every respect, except error,” and the 1982 Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics asserts that “we affirm that as Christ is God and Man in one Person, so Scripture is, indivisibly,