Historians and theologians alike have suggested that the reason the inerrancy of the bible means so much to so many people is because of our human need to hang on to something, to have some certainties, to have, somewhere, some body of knowledge that is unchanging. I want something to hang on to, also. Words are ambiguous. They mean different things in different settings. I might tell you to watch the channel.
Tone of voice has everything to do with what words mean, also.
I want to set that on my car radio, so I can listen to it also. Tone and setting can mean everything when we try to understand what words mean. Words are not the simple kind of truth that arithmetic is. Words are not the same way. It occurred to me this week, because I had channel in my head already, that for Quakers the words of the bible have been one more channel for God's love and care.