For too long, we have been told by some evangelical scholars that such a debate would be unhelpful or divisive. Given that Scripture and its authority has always been one of the defining elements of what it is to be an evangelical, the debate is vital. It is especially time for those who believe the Scriptures to be utterly true and without error in all that it affirms, to speak out or they will see their position sidelined by a different consensus evangelicalism.