The thing is, if it's true that you must believe every word as it was set down, then every person reading it is apostate if they are reading it in any languages but the originals – Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. Moreover, the canonized Bible we know is not the whole of either OT or NT era writings. Many writings were left out, though they hold as valid an authority as those that did make the cut in Bible canon – three hundred years after the fact when Constantine ordered the Council of Nicea to be scripture editors/publishers.

Also, the idea that the Bible must be taken literally in all contexts ignores that much of it is allegory; some of it tries to be a historical record; some is poetry and songs/hymns, etc. The idea that every word of the text is the immutable Word and must be taken wholly literally contradicts the scripture itself. Scripture tells us that Jesus is the Word in the NT; Genesis 1:1 opens with declaring "In the beginning, there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Before there was creation, before humanity, before writing, according to scripture the Word was and is – the Word lives in us (the Holy Spirit), is with God (Jesus the Son), and is God (the Father)… the first words of the Bible is an expression of our triune God. The Word is not characters in a bound text.