errancy

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He has a telling eye for the errancy of things normally considered straight: trams "drift" on their rails, a lighthouse beam is a "skittish mile of light," at the cricket field "a man on a lawn mower would wander the acreage lengthwise."

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  1. noun The state of erring or an instance of it.

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  • The errancy / innerrancy debate in biblical theology is often framed in terms of levels of —  Faith-Promoting Rumor
  • The errancy position holds that the Bible is not a perfect document that represents the direct word of God in every minor (and even some major) instance. —  Faith-Promoting Rumor
  • In scholarly biblical studies the errancy and inerrancy debate is not an issue. —  Faith-Promoting Rumor
  • While most Mormons accept the theological assumptions of the errancy / inerrancy debate that God is inerrant, which dispute the reliability of the scriptures, this strand of Mormon theology rejects such an assumption and takes the scriptures as reliable, but God as unreliable. —  Faith-Promoting Rumor
  • Christian apologists have responded to the various biblical errancy and claims of contradictions by atheists with an array of well known websites. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
 

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/ˈɛrənsi/
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