Is the Bible Inerrant?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. The Bible is inerrant—the perfect, God‑breathed Word, the final Absolute for faith and life. Any “errors” people point to come from translation issues, copyist slips, or human misunderstanding, not from the Word God inspired.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16).
- “Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21).
- Jesus said, “The scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35).
- “Thy word is truth” (John 17:17).
- “Every word of God is pure… add thou not unto his words” (Proverbs 30:5–6).
- “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven” (Psalm 119:89; see also 119:160).
- “God… cannot lie” (Titus 1:2; Hebrews 6:18).
If God cannot lie, and He breathed the Scriptures, then the Scriptures cannot lie.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- One Author stands behind the many writers—the Holy Spirit. Therefore the message is perfect from Genesis to Revelation.
- Differences in accounts are like two witnesses viewing the same event from different angles; they harmonize when rightly divided.
- Figures of speech, poetry, and prophecy are true in the sense God intended them—what the Bible affirms, it affirms truly.
- Printing mistakes, marginal notes, or translation variances are human; the God‑breathed Word itself is without error. The Spirit guides believers into all truth, opening the harmony of Scripture.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice… if you make yourself the judge of the Word, what is your absolute? But if you take God at His Word, the foundation is sure. The Scripture cannot be broken. Believe every word, add nothing, take nothing away, and let the Bible be your final authority.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
God keeps His Word
57-0115 §26
...he very word Catholic means 'universal,' doesn't it?" He said, "It does." Well, I said, "Why is it then that the teaching of the Catholic church today is so contrary to the Bible?" He said, "Well, you believe the Bible. We believe the church." Well I said, "There's no way at all we..." He said, "Well God is in His church." I said, "The Bible said God is in His Word." That's right. And also the Bible said in the closing of the book, "He that will take out of here anything or add anything to it, the same will be take...
Christ is revealed in His own Word
65-0822M §38
Now, notice this Bible. Some of them said, "Oh, well, it's done this, it's done that." But let me tell you something... Let's go into the history of the Bible just a minute and see where it come from. It was written by forty different writers. Forty men wrote the Bible over a space of sixteen hundred years apart and at different times, predicting the most important events that ever happened in world's history, and many times hundreds of years before it happened. And there is not one error in the entire sixty-six bo...
Hebrews, Chapter 3
57-0901M §7
There's not another piece of literature written anywhere that can do that. And mathematically and geographically and every way, there's not a book in the Bible wrote like the Bible ... there's not a book in the world, I mean, wrote like the Bible; there's nothing. The numerics of the Bible is perfectly in harmony; just even chapters and punctuations and everything, it's perfect. Not another book... You couldn't read a chapter out of it without crossing itself back. But there's not one cross-up in the entire Bible....
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
56-0426 §22
...t. Now, in the Aaronic priesthood, or the Levitical priesthood, that priesthood was done away with and the Urim Thummim of that time ceased. But in this new priesthood, the Bible is God's Urim Thummim. And if a revelation comes, a prophet prophesies, a church is established, a doctrine is made, and it don't flash on the Bible, then it's wrong. This is God's Urim Thummim. We must listen to the Word. I'm just old-fashioned enough to believe that that Bible was written by inspiration. And I believe every word of it is...
Pride
55-0807A §7
...d that's the Holy Spirit; that's all. He was the one Who wrote it. Do you believe that? He did, He wrote the... Men of old, as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, wrote the Bible. And it was wrote by ... I'm sorry, I did know, but I don't know now, just how many writers of the Bible. I'm sorry I can't quote that now, because I got two different numbers in my mind. I'm afraid I'd be mixed on it. But anyhow, it was wrote as much as twenty-something hundred years, from one part to the other one, and thousands of miles...