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That's the result of beliefs in things like biblical inerrancy, this idea that the Bible had no textual errors.

Fundamentalists within the denomination insisted its membership was on a slippery slope to theological liberalism by allowing women pastors and by refusing to affirm biblical inerrancy.

A staunch theological conservative, Barber touts biblical inerrancy, opposes women serving as pastors and supports abortion bans.

Theologically, the new regime insisted on biblical inerrancy, the doctrine that the Bible is completely without error or contradiction.

Gradually, though, as her inerrancy becomes clear, you let go of that concern and switch to related ones: Why tell the story this way in the first place?