My pleasure and you're most welcome.
Very sorry to be over a day late, but we lost power during a T-storm yesterday evening.
Prepare yourselves, STAR & DJ. With all this double-speak, snake handling could be next.
Sorry to disappoint you ... but you won’t find these people listed in the “Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy” ... advocating “snake handling” ... LOL ...
These people are mainstream and well-respected Christian Evangelicals, mainly in the USA but also around the world.
You’ve got people from leading seminaries and those who have dedicated their lives to the Word of God and bringing it to people - and they’re not about “snake handling”. That’s usually an ignorant and common idea among the uninformed.
And for those who don’t know who those people are in that statement, they have some listed here ... (and for someone who might want all the names, I did have those at one time, but I would have to search for it right now. Let me know if you want it).
Here’s one reference to it and some names.
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Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
with Exposition
Background
The “Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy” was produced at an international Summit Conference of evangelical leaders, held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago in the fall of 1978. This congress was sponsored by the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy. The Chicago Statement was signed by nearly 300 noted evangelical scholars, including James Boice, Norman L. Geisler, John Gerstner, Carl F. H. Henry, Kenneth Kantzer, Harold Lindsell, John Warwick Montgomery, Roger Nicole, J. I. Packer, Robert Preus, Earl Radmacher, Francis Schaeffer, R. C. Sproul, and John Wenham.
The ICBI disbanded in 1988 after producing three major statements: one on biblical inerrancy in 1978, one on biblical hermeneutics in 1982, and one on biblical application in 1986. The following text, containing the “Preface” by the ICBI draft committee, plus the “Short Statement,” “Articles of Affirmation and Denial,” and an accompanying “Exposition,” was published in toto by Carl F. H. Henry in God, Revelation And Authority, vol. 4 (Waco, Tx.: Word Books, 1979), on pp. 211-219. The nineteen Articles of Affirmation and Denial, with a brief introduction, also appear in A General Introduction to the Bible, by Norman L. Geisler and William E. Nix (Chicago: Moody Press, rev. 1986), at pp. 181-185. An official commentary on these articles was written by R. C. Sproul in Explaining Inerrancy: A Commentary (Oakland, Calif.: ICBI, 1980), and Norman Geisler edited the major addresses from the 1978 conference, in Inerrancy (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980).
Clarification of some of the language used in this Statement may be found in the 1982 Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics
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And then Dallas Theological Seminary, one of the pre-eminent seminaries in the world, and also in the USA - has a copy of it in their archives and they put it in PDF format here.
http://library.dts.edu/Pages/TL/Special/ICBI_1.pdf