“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.”

Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken— then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?

John 10:33-36

Many have used the statement  by Jesus "and the Scripture cannot be broken" as a proof text for the infallibility of the entire canon of Scripture.

Be careful here! Context is everything!

Jesus is direct quoting Psalm 82.

A Psalm of Asaph.

God presides in the divine assembly;

He renders judgment among the gods:

“How long will you judge unjustly

and show partiality to the wicked?

Selah

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless;

uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

Rescue the weak and needy;

save them from the hand of the wicked.

They do not know or understand;

they wander in the darkness;

all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

I have said, ‘You are gods;

you are all sons of the Most High.’

But like mortals you will die,

and like rulers you will fall.”

Arise, O God, judge the earth,

for all the nations are Your inheritance.

For some very relevant context, see:

Here God is addressing a group of non-humans. We know this because of the statement "But like mortals you will die,  and like rulers you will fall.”

This is the arguement:

He's making a tight, contextually anchored argument:

  1. The text says "gods" (elohim) to beings who are not Yahweh.
  2. If God can call those beings "gods" in a Psalm—and if "Scripture cannot be broken"—then it is not blasphemy for Jesus, whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, to call himself God's Son.
  3. The logic is a from lesser to greater arguement: If mere divine council members can be called "gods" by Yahweh without the word being blasphemous, then the One whom the Father consecrated and sent has even greater claim to that language.

He's not making a blanket statement about the entire canon. He's making a very specific, contextual argument based on a single verse and its grammar.

In other words:

"If God called lesser beings 'gods,' then you have no basis to deny that I, the one He sent, have the right to call myself His Son."

Jesus' statement "the Scripture cannot be broken" is not a sweeping endorsement of the entire canon's inerrancy. It's a specific affirmation that a particular word in a particular Psalm—spoken by God in the divine council context—stands firm and cannot be dismissed.