Although the writing of the Bible spanned some 1,500 years and now even the most recent book of the Bible is almost 2,000 years old, the unashamed contention of historic Christianity is that the Bible is error-free from start to finish.
The Bible makes numerous and uncompromising claims as to its own authenticity and divine origin (over 3,800 such claims). Likewise, it never once—while admitting the faults of all of its human characters, even the greatest of God’s people—admits to any faults in the writing and composition of its pages.
To call one passage false is to call the whole Bible a liar.
In claiming the inerrancy of the entire Bible it should, however, not be misunderstood that this is a claim to uniformity among all the writers pertaining to particular events (e.g. the gospel writers provide different perspectives, all true, of the same events), nor that the Bible is always to be taken literally (e.g. there are clearly poetic and symbolic passages that must be understood as they were intended).
To call one passage false is to call the whole Bible a liar.
The Bible does not pretend to use technical or scientific language, although when it addresses areas touching the sciences it is unfailingly reliable. The writers themselves were not omniscient, even concerning the subjects they wrote about; however, the God who breathed his Word through them is omniscient and purposed what was to be written.
From passages such as Matthew 4:1-11, 5:17-18, 22:23-33, and John 10:31-38, we learn from Jesus’ own mouth the confidence he had in the historicity of Old Testament figures and events, the word-for-word reliability of Scripture, and the validity of even seemingly unimportant or insignificant portions of God’s Word. Certainly anyone who claims to follow Jesus Christ must accept and imitate his confident use of every word of the Bible as perfect and sufficient scripture.
The Bible, then, is unique. It is the pure light of truth in a world of erroneous ideas and limited perspectives.