Most Brethren tend to see the Bible as a book that is inspired by God and yet written down by fallible human beings. But the Bible, or more specifically the New Testament, is the most authoritative written source of guidance for Brethren. The New Testament is the closest thing Brethren have to a written creed. Still, scripture is the central means for us to discover the mind of Christ. What is most important about the Bible is not whether it may contain errors, but that it does contain truth.
Human error is an element of any search for understanding.
In science, dogmatism is rightly understood to be the enemy of truth. Humility requires that we acknowledge the possibility of error at least in our fallible human reading of the scriptures if not in their writing and translation. Just as God through the Holy Spirit was active in inspiring the writing of the scriptures, the same Holy Spirit must be active in inspiring our reading of the scriptures in order for the truth that is in the Bible to be made manifest in our lives. If we read the scriptures with honesty and humility, that is with a heart willing to be taught by them, and if we test our private understandings against those of other Christians, we can trust that God will make His truth plain to us. The third wing of the early Protestant reformation, Anabaptism, began in Switzerland when several students of Zwingli became impatient with his willingness to compromise his beliefs when they met with opposition from civil government.