So if God inspires a man to write in a way that can be interpreted so ambiguously that many different interpretations can be derived from it, is this not an error in the one being inspired?
What I understand, Mama, is that God has given His word, knowing what He means by it. But people can be able to take what He says the wrong way. You yourself have seen how you can say what is right and someone else can take it the wrong way, haven't you?
But this does not mean you are in error!!
But, even though we humans can easily misunderstand God's word, because of how we have all been born in sin, God has got this covered > Isaiah 55:11 says His word "shall accomplish" what He pleases. So, God makes sure His word does all that He knows He means by His word!!! And this is in His love. So, if we want infallible interpretation of God's word > "Let all that you do be done with love." (1 Corinthians 16:14)
You have seen, I would say, how people can see things and understand things because they are not in love.
Also, we have how God's word is like a sword >
"For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." (Hebrews 4:12)
So, by design God's word is written to bring out how people really are, in their hearts. Ones read the Bible according to how they really are in their hearts!! It's like how a surgeon's scalpel can cut in order to examine a person: there is no error in the scalpel. But the scalpel can expose what is sin-sick in our thoughts and intentions and feelings and emotions.
When ones misunderstand the Bible, in the many ways people do, this can help to expose people. You might be able to see the intentions which are mixed with how each person interprets the Bible.
One thing to note is what ones don't say. Ones can keep repeating only certain ideas of their own groups, but never say much about how to become perfect in God's love > 1 John 4:17-18, Philippians 2:14-16. Others can be so busy with criticizing how people don't agree . . . but not say much about how we become one in Jesus Christ's love, and how Jesus has claimed and guaranteed this in His own prayer for us > John 17:22-26. This prayer of Jesus is included in God's word which is guaranteed to accomplish all that He pleases.
So, it is good to read the word of God and trust God to succeed in us, to have us doing all that He knows His word means
"'So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
. It shall not return to Me void,
. But it shall accomplish what I please,
. And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.'"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Isaiah 55:11)
So does inspiration denote no chance of error?
There is no chance of error in how God has us interpreting and living His word, with His love meaning > "And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment." (Philippians 1:9) But because so many people take things into their own hands . . . so many ways of understanding can be the result.
However, Mama . . . just because people look different, this does not mean they aren't all humans. You have seen, also, how pigeons can have different feathers, but they stay with each other and under those feathers they are all pigeons. But there are people who are into fighting about beliefs, and endless complaining about outward things being different (John 7:24).
But those feathers, even on the same pigeon's body, are each different, but they all fit together so the pigeon can fly and stay alive even in very hot or cold weather. Like this, the Christians who seem different but are of God's love can fit with each other, though certain outward things may seem very different.
Members of a body are very different, but they fit and work as well as God has designed the human body.
But there are ones who are only about how they are different, and they are fighting and competing and comparing. One thing that gives a wrong person away can be how the person acts like his or her group is the only best and right one, in comparison with other people and groups . . . instead of evaluating themselves in comparison with Jesus