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The Evangelicals of today are in a long and historical line of Christians who have upheld the truth of the Scriptures as having the only binding authority upon the believer and no others (no churches or priests or pastors or leaders).

That’s also why I mentioned earlier the “basis” for - and the “grounding of” this faith of Christianity that they carry today. That was the posting I made regarding the “Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy”. That’s a foundational document for understanding their position on the Bible and what it means.

Here that reference is that I posted earlier ...

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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

http://www.bible-researcher.com/chicago1.html

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And with that (i.e., the Bible) as the BASIS for understanding and teaching the historic and basic Christianity of the ages - that’s why you have these Christian (who believe in the Bible as the Word of God) criticizing very vocally the doctrines and teachings of the false institutions of Mormonism and Catholicism.

They represent in Biblical and Christian terms the ABSOLUTE LOSS OF ONE’S SOUL and (as the Bible explicitly says) - “eternal damnation”.