Inerrant/Infallible

Good stuff from the Rev. Doug Kuiper of The Reformed Witness Hour (a radio broadcast)

"Scripture: Its infallibility"

The child of God must know the Scriptures to be infallible. Not only inerrant. That is true too.

Inerrant means there is no error in them. But also infallible (not capable of having error in them). That they are infallible explains why they are inerrant. There is no error, not merely as a coincidence, but because Scripture is unable to have errors in it.

The reason why Scripture cannot have errors in it is because it is the Word of God and God cannot lie. It is impossible for God to lie (Heb. 6:18), which God who cannot lie promised (Tit. 1:2). God is not a man that He should lie (Num. 23:19). Because God is a God of light and of truth and of unchanging truth, so in Scripture there are no lies, errors, or deceptions.

That the Scriptures are infallible, however, does not merely follow from the truth of God’s unchangingness, but is also expressly stated in Scripture itself. There are a number of passages that imply or teach it to some degree, but the classic text regarding the infallibility of Scripture is John 10:35. There we read (and it is Jesus who is speaking): “The scripture cannot be broken.”

Scripture cannot be broken, so believe it or don't but as I like to say, it doesn't change the truth of it.