It’s great that smart people who love Jesus get together and summarize doctrine and the Bible into short, digestible chunks. I just wish they would cross reference their chunks with the verses in the Bible that support them. 
For example, the Nicene Creed, the Apostle’s Creed, or the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy.
Where are my Bible verses that go along with those creeds and statements!?
It should be a homework assignment every seminary assigns to incoming students.
Anyway, I thought it would be a good exercise to cross reference the short version of Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy.
After going through it, I can understand why most people don’t bother trying. I didn’t get as far and it took a lot longer than I expected. That’s why you’re only getting the “short version” and I focused only on cross referencing the verses that deal specifically with the Bible and it’s authority/inerrancy.
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (Short Statement)
- God, who is Himself Truth and speaks truth only1, has inspired2 Holy Scripture in order thereby to reveal Himself to lost mankind through Jesus Christ as Creator and Lord, Redeemer and Judge. Holy Scripture is God’s witness to Himself.
- Holy Scripture, being God’s own Word3, written by men3 prepared and superintended by His Spirit4, is of infallible divine authority in all matters upon which it touches: it is to be believed, as God’s instruction, in all that it affirms: obeyed, as God’s command, in all that it requires; embraced, as God’s pledge, in all that it promises.
- The Holy Spirit, Scripture’s divine Author4, both authenticates it to us by His inward witness and opens our minds to understand its meaning.
- Being wholly and verbally5 God-given, Scripture is without error6 or fault in all its teaching, no less in what it states about God’s acts in creation, about the events of world history, and about its own literary origins under God, than in its witness to God’s saving grace in individual lives.
- The authority of Scripture is inescapably impaired7 if this total divine inerrancy is in any way limited or disregarded, or made relative to a view of truth contrary to the Bible’s own; and such lapses bring serious loss to both the individual and the Church.
1. Numbers 23:19, Titus 1:2, Hebrews 6:18
2. 2 Timothy 3:16
3. Exodus 32:16, Jeremiah 30:2, Jeremiah 36:2, 1 Corinthians 14:37
4. Zechariah 7:12, 1 Corinthians 2:13, 2 Peter 1:21
5. Exodus 4:12, Deuteronomy 18:18, Jeremiah 1:9
6. 2 Samuel 7:28, Proverbs 30:5, John 17:17
7. 1 Corinthians 15:13-14 (this sorta applies)
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