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Inerrancy of the Bible

According to a copy of the Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible I was perusing a while back, the Catholic Church believes the Bible to be the word of God, but it must be interpreted by a priest or someone educated in the theological basis of the scriptures. Most conservative Protestants, on the other hand, believe the Bible to be the inerrant and immutable word of God ; writings divinely inspired, and preserved through the ages. Events described in scripture are literal historical fact. Mormons stated their position in 1842 in their 8 th Article of Faith: "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly..." The Latter-day Saint faithful believe that "plain and precious truths" have been removed from the Bible for political purposes, and so they believe that the Bible needs to be augmented with other scripture; The Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price. I have been reading the works of Bart Ehr