Mennonites affirm Scripture as fully authoritative and divinely inspired. The Mennonite Confession of Faith states that the Bible is the 'authoritative source and standard for belief and life.' However, Mennonites have not typically used the language of technical inerrancy as employed in evangelical circles, and the denomination's academic institutions engage with historical-critical scholarship.

The Anabaptist tradition's christocentric hermeneutic — reading all of Scripture through the lens of Jesus — implies that Scripture's authority is understood dynamically rather than as a propositional database of equally authoritative inerrant statements. The Spirit is needed to illuminate Scripture, and community discernment applies it to contemporary contexts.