The Bible, then, is the ultimate standard of truth, inerrant in all its words that are inspired by God. If the Bible is in fact God’s word then the Bible is the truth of God, inerrant in its message. God Himself is truth and speaks only truth; therefore the Bible inspired by Him is also the word of truth. As stated in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy the total truth of Scripture is essential to its authority. The Bible would not be authoritative, clear, or necessary if it contained errors, nor would God be trustworthy and truthful if His words were not entirely true. Scripture is without error in its teaching and message.
“To disbelieve or disobey any word in Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God…all the Words in Scripture are claimed to be completely true and without error in any part (Num. 23:19; Pss. 12:6; 119:89, 96; Prov. 30:5; Matt. 24:35). God’s words are , in fact, the ultimate standard of truth (John 17:17)…The inerrancy of Scripture means that Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.” - Wayne Grudem
The Bible tells the truth in all that it talks about. We can rest assured that the very Words we read in Scripture are the true, authoritative, clear, necessary, inerrant Words of God.
“Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.” - Proverbs 30:5
“Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.” - John 17:17
I completely agree the scripture is God breathed, but to say that the bible is without error is the most obsurd thing I’ve ever heard.
Paul was a man and so was everyone else who put the pen to the paper.
So you would say that God does not have the ability to make sure his word remains inerrant through man? Is the willpower and finite nature of man able to stop the will and power of God? I find it far more obsurd to believe that God cannot inspire humans to write his Word in complete inerrancy as if man has the power to stop the purpose of God.
How is it that you can believe in a bible that contains errors? You can’t know what is true and what is false. God says his word is truth and yet if it contains errors then how do we know what part is true and what isn’t? Is God a liar? He is if His Word is erranious because it cannot all be truth, it cannot be trustworthy, it cannot be authoritative or sufficent for the life of the Christian if it is filled with falsehood. We have no hope in Christ and no hope in Salvation if the very message of the Gospel is cluttered with errors.
Is it so hard to believe that the God of the Universe who created the heavens and the earth by speaking them into existence can be the same God who keeps his Word inerrant and trustworthy by inspiring 40 different men over hundreds of years to write the Scriptures we now call the Bible?
Honestly, the most obsurd thing is to believe in Christianity, Jesus, God, and the gospel message and yet maintain that the Bible contains errors.
The Bible has NO errors in it. It is truth from cover to cover.
Out of interest, I noticed you used the words “inerrant in all its words that are inspired by God”. Does that mean there are words not inspired by God in the bible?
I still find it hard to believe that something can’t contract at least minor errors when it’s been filtered through man, no matter how inerrant (is that the word?) God is. Just as people have interpreted the Bible differently through the ages, so could the original writers have influenced the scriptures. Not to mention the differences and difficulties that have occured when the Bible has been translated into other languages.
And how do you explain and choose between differences in the old, original manuscripts?
Also, I think it is important to distinguish between errors and errors. If someone translates a word or a sentence incorrectly in one of the psalms, then it’s probably not the end of Christianity as we know it, but when the sentence deal with the nature of Christ, then it’s really important. So when you discuss whether “errors” occur in the bible, I think it’s important to define what kind of errors you mean.
Lastly, the interpretation of the bible is almost just as important (if not even more important) than the text sometimes. Just because Jael hit a nail through the head of some guy (in the book of Judges, I think), it doesn’t mean that it’s ok to hit nails through the head of anyone who don’t believe like you do, for example.( ) No matter how correct the Bible is, it can always be severely misinterpreted
As always, thanks for allowing a nice debate
When you think about it, the easiest way for God to make sure his words were never misinterpreted or twisted, would be to _dictate_ the scriptures, but since no such claims are made within Christianity, I think the important words are “inspired by”, or?
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