Is The Bible Inerrant?

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Originally Posted by OBW

But I like a scripture that leads us to God and Christ, not a scripture that is so perfect that it is inerrant, and we can then fight over what that means. Many doctrinal statements are more certain about the inerrancy of scripture than they are about the person of Christ.

And herein lies the essence of the word of God.

I have long been convinced that all the "inerrancy" talk really is designed to discredit the value of God's word. What persuades me is not the painstaking way the scribes have passed down copies of the original autographs, but how Jesus Himself and the Apostles treated and quoted the scriptures.

God's word enables us to know about Him and to know Him, which is perhaps the most significant feature of the new covenant. The scriptures also provide us with excellent history, wisdom, song, etc. but they are all secondary to the primary goal of God's word. Jesus says, "be it unto you according to your faith." If you want to find flaws in the scripture, or to find "flaws" in God Himself, then you will indeed. God seems to have had little intention in merely providing us with a perfect and inerrant book.

Jesus Christ is the Logos of God. He is the message of God. It is interesting to note that the Greek word logos comes from lego, which is to gather, to assemble, to enumerate a collection, a list, a catalog, a narration. And so it has been with the word of God. The Bible was a growing collection of writings enumerating the knowing of God, a narration growing in detail and scope, for whosoever will to know God. To truncate the list, by supposedly knowing God as father Abraham did without some book, is to "truncate" the knowledge of the Logos of God.