"The Bible is the dramatic discourse: something someone (prophets and apostles; ultimately the Holy Spirit) says (Scripture) about something (the drama of redemption) to someone (the church) at some time (past; present) in some way (a variety of literary forms) for some purpose (faith, hope, and love). The infallibility of the Bible follows from the fact that God is the ultimate authorial agent who is doing things with the words of Scripture. “god has something to say and he is very good at saying it.” Specifically, God is speaking truth in many ways: presenting Jesus Christ, the fulfillment of the law and promises the one through whom all things were related and are being recreated. The words of the covenanting god are trustworthy-utterly reliable-for God cannot deny himself (Heb 6:18; titus 1:2). Indeed, god’s truth is liked to his covenant faithfulness: his words can be relied on absolutely to accomplish the purpose for which they were sent/used (Isa. 55:11). The authority of Scripture derives from the authority of god as he speaks in and through the Scripture. To emphasize Scripture as the speech action of God, then, is not to forget the question of truth. It is, however, to situate truth among the other “perfections” of Scripture in the economy of communication. Everything that God does in Scripture with words is infallible in the sense that it will not fail to achieve its intended purpose. When God makes assertions, those assertions, when properly interpreted, are true and trustworthy, wholly reliable: they accomplish the authorial purpose for which they were sent. The inerrancy of Scripture is that quality of the biblical text that, as God’s communicative act, ensures that what is stated, when interpreted rightly and read in faith, corresponds to the way things in creation and history are. It is important to remember, however, that the Bible is an ingredient in the economy of divine communicative action, not a textual talisman with its own mystical power. It follows that the Bible’s truth serves specific communicative purposes, especially bearing witness to the reality of God, human beings, and the great redemptive work accomplished in Jesus Christ. The truth that the Spirit communicated in Scripture is not merely theoretical and historical, then, but practical, transformative, and relational: a truth that sets free, gives life, and promoted wisdom. It is one thing to say that a statement is true, another to say what it means. Inerrancy offers few interpretive guidelines other than affirming the overall consistency of the Bible’s claims."