Topics: Authority; Belief; Bible; Doubt; Inerrancy; Inspiration of Scripture; Interpretation; Postmodernism; Revelation; Skepticism; Unbelief; Word of God
References: Deuteronomy 8:3; Psalm 12:6; 119:105; Matthew 5:18; Luke 21:33; John 17:17; Acts 17:11; Romans 1:16; 2 Timothy 3:16
Americans who say the Bible is the actual word of God and should be taken word for word: 28 percent
Americans who said this thirty years ago: 38 percent
—Ted Olsen, “Go Figure,” Christianity Today (August 2006)