I found the following that describes part of my problem with the whole fight for inerrancy:
I do not affirm the word inerrancy because it compromises the Christian faith to the standards of secular scientific thinking. It takes our devotion and worship away from Christ and substitutes a second-rate god that breeds fear and paranoia, threatening to crumble our faith in God with every scientific report, literary device, or historical discrepancy.
This second-rate god demands that we spend our lives worrying about the chronology of the Hebrew kings, the findings of archeology, the age of the earth, and the chronology of the gospels.
This second-rate god drives wedges between the people of God as we fight each other in the name of protecting this false “foundation” of our faith.
On its own, the Bible is incapable of giving life, peace, or healing. It only can give a fragile certainty that must be defended tooth and nail.
That we feel compelled to fight for this god suggests that we may have lost sight of the true foundation in scripture. Our faith rises and falls on the person of Christ alone. We trust that the Bible is true and reliable, but we don’t have to meet a modern, scientific standard in order for Christ to be Lord.
I hate the word inerrancy because it creates a super supernatural standard for truth that the Bible never set up.
I hate the word inerrancy because it clouds the ways that the Bible actually is true.
I hate the word inerrancy because it binds the Christian faith to a set of standards that were never intended for the people of God and that are completely foreign to the centuries of Christians who have gone before us.
I hate the word inerrancy because it has become a way to determine who’s in and who’s out, even though few actually understand what it means or where it came from.
I hate the word inerrancy because it provides a flimsy, easily combustible foundation for the people of God.
I hate the word inerrancy because it takes the focus of our faith away from Christ and places it in a book.
It’s time to stop fighting for inerrancy and to start living as if everything in the Bible is true.
When we see the words of scripture come true in our own lives, we’ll have all of the proof we need that the Bible is reliable.
I believe in the truth of scripture. And that truth is primarily what is revealed about Christ.
Inerrancy comes from the desire to make the scripture into a provable document from the era of Enlightenment that speaks with authority concerning history, science, geography, anthropology, the age of the earth, etc.
And since the document fails at so many levels, you either have to declare that it is entirely accurate and true at the nth level or have a hole in your faith.
But, like all writings from the times in which they were made, the collected works of the Bible describe what is necessary for the purpose of revealing God rather than describing quantum physics and the age of the earth for the purpose of being "inerrant" in modern terms.