What I Believe About Sacred Scripture
Perfect Ikon of Jesus Christ

I believe that the whole Bible (composed of 73 books) is inspired by God. When I say "inspired by God" I do not mean either that "the human author was thinking pleasant things about God" (so that only the human may be called "author") or that "the human author was taking dictation" (so that only God may be called "author"). I mean that every portion of every book has at least two authors, one divine and one human. I rather like how the Vatican II document Dei Verbum expresses this truth: "In composing the sacred books, God chose men and while employed by Him they made use of their powers and abilities, so that with Him acting in them and through them, they, as true authors, consigned to writing everything and only those things which He wanted.... God speaks in Sacred Scripture through men in human fashion."

As a consequence, I believe that the whole Bible is inerrant, or without error. In the words of Dei Verbum again, "the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God, for the sake of salvation, wanted put into sacred writings."

Jesus Christ is the eternal Word of God. But the Bible may be called "the Word of God" in a secondary way, both because it resembles and reveals him: it is a perfect ikon of Christ. How does the Bible resemble Christ? Refer to what I said about inspiration. Christ is fully divine and fully human. The entire Bible is, similarly, authored by God and by humans. Christ is, furthermore, without sin. The Bible, similarly, is without error. This ikonographic vision of Scripture is also well expressed in Dei Verbum: "For the words of God, expressed in human language, have been made like human discourse, just as the Word of the eternal Father, when He took to Himself the flesh of human weakness, was in every way made like men.... The Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures just as she venerates the body of the Lord, since, especially in the sacred liturgy, she unceasingly receives and offers to the faithful the bread of life from the table both of God's word and of Christ's body."

Because the Bible is inspired by God, inerrant, and a perfect ikon of Christ, all Christian doctrine, morality, and practice must be compatible with it and none may contradict it.

Personally, I also tend to believe in the material sufficiency of Scripture: that Scripture contains or implies, in one way or another, all truths necessary for salvation (though these are not all explicit). I do not believe, however, in the formal sufficiency of Scripture; it is not always self-explanatory and can be interpreted quite badly. In order to properly interpret Scripture, it must, for example, be read in the same Spirit by which it was written and read in light of the living tradition of the Church, the Body of Christ, to whom it was entrusted.

I hope that gives people some idea what I believe.

Read Dei Verbum: Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation.
Read about the difference between Material and Formal Sufficiency by Jimmy Akin.