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[Angrboda]

Properly understood, the terms of inerrancy and infallibility refer to the Holy Scriptures as the necessary and sufficient guide to saving faith when approached with humility and earnest desire to know the Lord and be led by Him.  For the simple, the literal meanings of the stories and lessons serve as a sufficient guide for life and saving faith. For the more learned, careful study and deep reading of the whole text allows them to resolve the more challenging passages to the satisfaction of Man’s higher rational faculties. In other words, God meets up where we are and provides exactly what we need if only we are willing to listen.

Everybody has got an opinion.  Problem is, there's no way to show one opinion is superior to another.  All you've got is a bunch of divergent opinions resting on sand.

So what ? Yes there are many opinions. Some are better than others and demonstrably more supported than others. The quantity of opinions about any subject neither confirms nor denies the veracity of those opinions. Your comment is a non seqitor (sp).

The sand at the bottom of the pile of opinions are hermeneutic assumptions. Some assume the bible inerrant throughout, others that different parts need to be interpreted differently, all believing that their chosen assumptions yield a reading experience imbued in some sense with truth. But the problem with assumptions is they are completely unsupported. Thus your belief that some opinions are better supported than others rests on ignoring the crucial role played by those initial assumptions. So no, no opinions are demonstrably superior to others and thus all opinions are of equal value when it comes to deriving truth from the bible. You cannot demonstrate your assumptions, you can only look for agreement among the assumptions you do make. But since there are a multitude of incompatible assumptions undergirding those opinions, agreement is nothing but sheer accident. That's not a non sequitur. It follows from the basics of hermeneutics.