doubt that we can learn some things from Bible critics, but that is not my burden here. As for inerrancy, I think it is a perfectly good idea when understood in its dictionary definition and according to the intentions of its original users. But it is only an element of a larger picture. The term inerrancy actually says much less than we need to say in commending the authority of Scripture. I will argue that Scripture, together with all of God’s other communications to us, should be treated as nothing