The Infallibility of Holy Scripture
Harbach defends the full infallibility and verbal inspiration of Scripture against both crude denialism and subtle rationalism that would restrict biblical authority to matters of faith and practice while dismissing historical and scientific claims as potentially erroneous. The pamphlet critiques modernist and evangelical compromises on scriptural inerrancy, arguing that partial infallibility makes human reason the ultimate arbiter of biblical truth.
A crude enemy of the Christian faith will simply flatly deny any infallibility of Scripture. A more subtle enemy will smoothly admit that Scripture is the infallible rule of faith and life, meaning by this that Scripture has infallibility in the sphere, not of objective, but subjective faith only. Denied is that there is any infallibility in the sphere of historical or scientific fact. The reasoning is that the Bible is authoritative, authentic, and credible in matters of precept and practice,...