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Verbal Inspiration

The teaching that the words of Scripture, not only its message, were given by God. Held in stricter forms by some Lutheran bodies than by the ELCA, which speaks of Scripture as the inspired word of God without adopting inerrancy as a doctrine.

In Scripture — The canon, translation, and how Lutherans read the Bible.

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