Do you all accept biblical inerrancy/infallibility and why? Shouldn't God be the standard rather than a book?
I had thought about starting a thread on this very topic but realized it would be an exercise in futility. From those who answer yes to your first question, you're going to get mostly some species of circular reasoning or one of 3-4 trite answers out of the Inerrancy/Infallibility Apologetics Playbook.
Moreover, there are so many different understandings of "inerrancy" and "infallibility" that the question becomes almost meaningless. Two believers who claim to accept inerrancy and infallibility may have wildly different understandings.
Like so many things, answering yes becomes almost some sort of litmus test. "Yes, as a good Christian, of course I believe in inerrancy and infallibility, even if I have no idea of what I mean by that."
A more narrowly focused question would be "Do you accept the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy?" The Chicago Statement, set forth below, is a good example of an extreme position on inerrancy. In paragraph 3, you'll note, it says that the Holy Spirit "authenticates" the Bible to us. That's probably the best answer that someone who adheres to infallibility and inerrancy could give.
1. God, who is Himself Truth and speaks truth only, has inspired Holy Scripture in order thereby to reveal Himself to lost mankind through Jesus Christ as Creator and Lord, Redeemer and Judge. Holy Scripture is God's witness to Himself.
2. Holy Scripture, being God's own Word, written by men prepared and superintended by His Spirit, is of infallible divine authority in all matters upon which it touches: it is to be believed, as God's instruction, in all that it affirms, obeyed, as God's command, in all that it requires; embraced, as God's pledge, in all that it promises.
3. The Holy Spirit, Scripture's divine Author, both authenticates it to us by His inward witness and opens our minds to understand its meaning.
4. Being wholly and verbally God-given, Scripture is without error or fault in all its teaching, no less in what it states about God's acts in creation, about the events of world history, and about its own literary origins under God, than in its witness to God's saving grace in individual lives.
5. The authority of Scripture is inescapably impaired if this total divine inerrancy is in any way limited or disregarded, or made relative to a view of truth contrary to the Bible's own; and such lapses bring serious loss to both the individual and the Church.