Biblical Literalism school of thought

This is a reconstruction from published statements, not a real account. Only questions with a documented position are answered, and each one cites its source below. Spotted an error? Bring a better citation to the forum and it gets fixed.

School of thought. Scripture is inerrant and literally factual, and outranks observation where they conflict. Canonical summary, not a person.

answered 17 questions

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Kindred % · overall match

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Twin % · thinks like you

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World % · lives in your world

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Life % · lives like you

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Opposition % · opposite poles, held with certainty

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Positions & sources

Question	Position	Source
Which comes closest to your actual position on God?	I am certain a god or gods exist	Defining doctrine of the school.
Humans came to exist by:	Special creation, essentially as we are, within the last ~10,000 years	The school's defining young-earth reading of the Genesis chronology.
Tomorrow the visible stars rearrange to spell, in every human language, a claim to be the creator of the universe. Stipulate: every instrument on Earth records it, everyone sees it, and no known physics explains it. Your best explanation:	A creator of roughly the kind major religions describe	Doctrine of divine signs (Luke 21:25 — "signs in sun and moon and stars"): a sky-written claim by the Creator is, in the school's hermeneutic, God's own sign. (scenario answer — inferred from their documented positions, not a recorded statement)
Abortion should be:	Prohibited in nearly all circumstances	Psalm 139:13 and Exodus 20:13 as the school's canonical proof texts; its standard confessional position.
Your 10-year-old asks you directly, "Is there a God?" Stipulate: no one else is listening, and they'll remember your answer. You say:	My view, stated as plainly as I'd state a fact	Deuteronomy 6:6–7 — parents shall teach the faith's claims diligently to their children. (scenario answer — inferred from their documented positions, not a recorded statement)
Organized religion's overall effect on society has been:	Strongly positive — a foundation of morality and community	The school's self-understanding: biblical religion as the foundation of morality and community.
God exists	Certainly true	Defining doctrine of the school (Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, 1978).
Conscious existence continues after death	Certainly true	Doctrine of heaven, hell, and resurrection in the school's confessions (Chicago Statement era, 1978).
Prayer can change what happens in the world, beyond its effects on the people involved	Certainly true	Petitionary-prayer doctrine, James 5:16 as read literally — God hears and answers prayer.
Human beings arose entirely through unguided natural processes	Certainly false	The school's defining reading of Genesis 1–11: special creation, not unguided process.
Consciousness is produced entirely by the brain	Certainly false	Doctrine of the immaterial soul (Genesis 2:7) — man is body and soul, not brain alone.
Some actions are wrong no matter what any person or culture believes	Certainly true	Divine moral law: right and wrong are God's revealed objective standards (the Decalogue read literally).
Eating meat is morally wrong	Certainly false	Genesis 9:3 — "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you": meat-eating expressly permitted.
We owe a stranger overseas as much as we owe a neighbor	Probably true	Luke 10, the Good Samaritan, read literally — the neighbor one owes love includes the foreign stranger.
Human life has a purpose beyond the one we choose for it	Certainly true	Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Q.1 — "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever": purpose given, not chosen.
Most people are basically good	Certainly false	Doctrine of original sin and total depravity (Genesis 3; Romans 3:23).
Children do best raised by their two biological parents	Certainly true	Genesis 1–2 family design as the school's normative teaching — children raised by father and mother.