Is The Bible Inerrant?

[Cal]

Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Then you don't believe the Bible is inerrant. Part of that belief is that "all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" are hidden in these words. To think that there are other ways to write the words that end up in the same revelation is to miss the wisdom and knowledge hidden in this way.

I don't believe the Scripture every makes the claim that there is no better way of saying what it says.

Inerrant doesn't mean there is not a better way of saying something. It means the way it reads is the way God chose to say it to us. We might actually stumble upon a better way of saying something, but we wouldn't know it because we'd have no way of validating that. Although we do often know that a modern rendering is more understandable and thus "better."

But I agree with you that we assume Scripture is inerrant because that's the only way to expose our own errors of interpretation. If we presume our interpretation is better than Scripture we are on shifting sand.