Some further thoughts on the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy . Four years after the original Chicago Statement, the same group of conservative theologians had a follow-up summit and issued a second statement, the Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics . This statement aimed to clarify some of the content of the original, and to explain a little more carefully how the participants meant the bible to be interpreted. Once again, the core of the statement is a series of affirmations and denials and each would be worthy of some comment. I'd just like to highlight a couple. Firstly from Article VI WE AFFIRM that the Bible expresses God's truth in propositional statements, and we declare that biblical truth is both objective and absolute. We further affirm that a statement is true if it represents matters as they actually are, but is an error if it misrepresents the facts. WE DENY that, while Scripture is able to make us wise unto salvation, biblical truth should
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson