Is the Bible inerrant or infallible?

The Bible is either completely correct or always right, but which one is it?

Imagine you have a favorite storybook that your parents read to you every night. It has all the best adventures and lessons, but sometimes there are little mistakes, like a character who has two eyes on one side of their face or a dragon with only three legs. That's inerrant, meaning no mistakes at all. But if the storybook is always right when it matters most, like telling you how to get through a tough day or what kind of friend to be, that’s infallible, meaning always right in important things.

If someone says the Bible is inerrant, they think it's like a perfect storybook with no mistakes. Every word, every number, and every detail is exactly correct, just like if your storybook had perfect dragons with five legs each time.

But if someone says it’s infallible, they think of it more like a wise friend who always gives good advice, even if some little details might be off, like the dragon having four legs one night and five the next. The Bible is either completely correct or always right, but which one is it?

Imagine you have a favorite storybook that your parents read to you every night. It has all the best adventures and lessons, but sometimes there are little mistakes, like a character who has two eyes on one side of their face or a dragon with only three legs. That's inerrant, meaning no mistakes at all. But if the storybook is always right when it matters most, like telling you how to get through a tough day or what kind of friend to be, that’s infallible, meaning always right in important things.