- Anglican/Episcopal - Inspired. Book of Common Prayers, the Catechism
- Assembly of God - Inspired and inerrant.
- Baptist - Inspired and inerrant.
- Lutheran - LCMS: Inspired and inerrant. ELCA: Inspired but not inerrant.
- Methodist - Inspired and inerrant.
- Presbyterian - PCUSA: "For some the Bible is inerrant; for others it is not necessarily factual, but it breathes with the life of God."
- Roman Catholic - God is the author of sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit ...we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures." Catechism - 2nd Edition
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