Those who deny inerrancy end up replacing the authority of the Bible with their own authority because they get to determine which parts of the Bible are divinely inspired and which are not. The process is almost entirely subjective.
The tendency is to deny the inspiration of any part of Scripture that does not line up with what they think is true. When the Bible’s sexual ethics conflict with their sexual ethic, it is because those texts reflect man’s opinion rather than God’s. When the Bible’s teaching seems to conflict with the current scientific consensus, it is because those teachings are not inspired. When the Bible portrays God doing something that conflicts with their understanding of God, those passages must reflect man’s ideas rather than God’s. In the end, the Bible (and Christianity) is remade into their own image. When God just so happens to endorse everything you already believe, you’ve probably got the wrong God.
Thinking to Believe 
August 30, 2022 at 2:07 pm
3 years ago I had a conversation with the head of the religion department at our Catholic H.S. She told me that she (a recent phd from DePaul) and the Catholic church, at the direction of the Pope himself, believe the Bible should be “interpreted in light of history and science”. I was actually dumbstruck.
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August 31, 2022 at 7:50 am
All Scripture is God-breathed and Holy Spirit influenced, just as the Word of God testifies. If it were not so, considering the fallible wisdom of mere men, how could we trust any of it? And how could a truly just God judge us based on a Word He tells us to live by if He knows it was penned in error?
People believe what they need to believe to sleep at night and not fear eternity; to excuse the choices they make that run contrary to the Word and character of God. It’s the well-known adage: “People don’t hate the Bible (ergo; Christians) because they disagree with it, but because it doesn’t agree with them.”
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3
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