Is the Bible Inerrant?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. The Bible is inerrant—the perfect, God‑breathed Word, the final Absolute for faith and life. Any “errors” people point to come from translation issues, copyist slips, or human misunderstanding, not from the Word God inspired.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16).
- “Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21).
- Jesus said, “The scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35).
- “Thy word is truth” (John 17:17).
- “Every word of God is pure… add thou not unto his words” (Proverbs 30:5–6).
- “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven” (Psalm 119:89; see also 119:160).
- “God… cannot lie” (Titus 1:2; Hebrews 6:18).
If God cannot lie, and He breathed the Scriptures, then the Scriptures cannot lie.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- One Author stands behind the many writers—the Holy Spirit. Therefore the message is perfect from Genesis to Revelation.
- Differences in accounts are like two witnesses viewing the same event from different angles; they harmonize when rightly divided.
- Figures of speech, poetry, and prophecy are true in the sense God intended them—what the Bible affirms, it affirms truly.
- Printing mistakes, marginal notes, or translation variances are human; the God‑breathed Word itself is without error. The Spirit guides believers into all truth, opening the harmony of Scripture.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice… if you make yourself the judge of the Word, what is your absolute? But if you take God at His Word, the foundation is sure. The Scripture cannot be broken. Believe every word, add nothing, take nothing away, and let the Bible be your final authority.