(Not that God is assumed to be an individual in this sense, but that it is not assumed that he is not, in the
statement of the classification,
whose purpose is to state, not to answer,
controversial questions.)
Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more
controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society,
whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single
statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).