The original autographs where completely inerrant. The Bible of today has some small errors (depending on your version, but that is another discussion), but for the most part has been preserved amazingly. The errors do not affect any major doctrine, and consist mainly of numbers and such. No other document has been confirmed to the degree that the Bible has with the number of manuscripts that it has. E.g. Up to 1947, the oldest Old Testament manuscript was from the 900's AD. In 1947 we found the Dead Sea Scrolls from ~150 BC. The lack of errors between it and the 900 AD manuscripts was amazing.
So the short answer to your question is 'no', we don't believe that every last word in our English Bibles are uncorrupted, or at least most of us don't.
The long answer to your question leads you to sift through the tremendous amount of manuscript evidence and makes you conclude that while our Bibles aren't word for word perfect, they are very, very close and may be relied upon to be accurate.Christians do you believe every single word of you bible is true and uncorrupted by the hands of men?
I don't believe that every single word is inspired by God in the Holy Bible. I do believe in thought inspiration. God spoke to his servants through visions and dreams and they penned down as best as they could in human language those things that God revealed to them.
Sometimes we tend to mis understand the real intent of the one who received the inspiration. Human language albeit wonderful but it is also very complex.
Matthew 4:4
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