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The Scriptures are inerrant (without error) and an inspired work of God.

The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith is important to consider on this topic (also called the 2nd London Baptist Confession)–specifically chapter 1.

This chapter of the confession includes a list of the 39 Old Testament (OT) and 27 New Testament (NT) books. The books known as the Apocrypha are historical books and beneficial in that right but not inspired works.

The inerrancy of the Scriptures is supported by but not limited to:

1. The Scriptures themselves declare it inerrant. See Matthew 5:18, John 10:35
2. The citing of Scripture by Scripture. Examples: Matt. 2:18 quoting Jeremiah 31:15; Matthew 21:5 and John 12:15 referring to Zechariah 9:9.
3. The volume of manuscripts. There are over 9000 manuscripts and fragments of the Scriptures in various languages and the number keeps rising. There are over 5800 manuscripts and fragments of the New Testament (Koine Greek). No other text comes close to these figures without significant alterations.
4. The character of God. See Hebrews 6:18, Titus 1:2

To be clear, this is talking about the inerrancy of Scripture itself. This is not to say that people’s interpretations are inerrant.

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