does not guarantee inerrancy in things not essential to its purpose, 215

in it God uses imperfect means, 215

is divine truth in historical and individually conditioned form, 216

did not directly communicate the words which its subjects employed, 216

has permitted no form of words which would teach essential error, 216

verbal, refuted by two facts, 216

constitutes its Scriptures an organic whole, 217

develops a progressive system with Christ as centre, 217

furnishes, in the Bible as a whole, a sufficient guide to truth and salvation, 218

overstatement of, has made sceptics, 218