“A lady was sunbathing at the beach when a little boy in swimming trunks, carrying a towel, walked up and said to her, “Excuse me, ma’am, but do you believe in God?”
She was surprised by his question, but smiled and replied, “Why yes, I certainly do.”

Then he asked her, “Do you go to church every Sunday?”
Still taken aback, she answered, “Absolutely.”
Then he asked her, “Do you read your Bible and pray every day?”
Again she said, “Yes,” and now her curiosity was really aroused.
Finally the little boy sighed and said, “OK, then, will you hold my money for me while I go swimming?”

“More to the point, if the Bible is not completely reliable, then how can we trust it at all? Who’s to say which parts of the Bible are true and which ones are not? It all becomes very subjective.

Vance Havner summed it up quite well when he said:

„I am certain that the Bible is the Word of God. Either it is or it isn’t, and either all of it is the Word of God or we never can be sure of any of it. It is either absolute or obsolete. If we have to start changing this verse, apologizing for this, and making allowances for that, we might as well give up and walk away.“

The inerrancy of Scripture is one of the essentials of the Christian faith and is nonnegotiable. The word inerrancy means “freedom from error and untruths.””

from “Unlocking the Scriptures: What the Bible Is, How We Got It, and Why We Can Trust It” by Jeff Lasseigne, Greg Laurie

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