Literalists

It's sad and embarrassing to even have this argument.  The idea that the words of the holy book must be taken as flawless and unquestionable hails from an earlier simpler time, childhood, before much if any critical, logical, realistic and I might add unwelcome consideration had been introduced.  To address the assertation rationally, systematically, point by point, overlooks the desperate need for believers to hold on to what they must never let go.  It is too important from a faith perspective to ever succumb to argument on such a matter as the Inerrancy of the body of canonical scripture.  It is not an option to ever give way to anything so mundane as a mere logical inconvenience.
  Accepting that no list of physical actualities can ever dissuade the absolute requirement that literalists maintain the literal interpretation, such as the mechanics of writing during the fifteen hundred years prior to Gutenberg, for example the problem that scribes, although low status still needed to be in that volatile range of somewhat educated yet sufficiently dedicated so as to be acutely susceptible to possessing an agenda, even so, foolhardily let me persist in laying out a few obvious blasphemes, such as that which has made it down through the centuries survived relentless book burning depending on the vagaries of the particular political climate and represents a tiny fraction of what once may have existed. 
   Annoyingly long paragraph size sentences such as the one above deserve no place in modern effective communication, so imagine entire pages of text without even any spaces between the words let alone any punctuation.  Yet that is indeed how many scribes (who could write, but not necessarily read) recorded the sacred texts.  Obviously sometimes they would lose track and duplicate or skip sections.   And it became up to the reader to intuit the word and line breaks.  Due to the pure mathematical limits to the combinational crossword puzzle possibilities of a limited number of letter symbols the very same block of text could easily be translated or interpolated legitimately more than one way.
   But let me not dwell on the technical challenges that have faced the inerrant word of God down through the last twenty centuries*  (let us take for granted that all sacred scripture including the old Testament was written in the first century and nothing of value was or has been produced of holy inerrant word of god value before or since) And, for the sake of (lack of) argument let us take it for granted that all that god ever really cared about is how His words would be translated into modern American English.  Let us consider the issue of metaphor and illusion in writing.
   Back in the first paragraph, while sarcastically characterizing literalists as incapable of entertaining argument, I used the phrases "hold on to" and "never let go".  I was referring to a mental concept and yet I was using a physical metaphor capable of conveying understanding between members of a species possessed with grasping mechanisms such as hands with opposable thumbs, and I made use of the image of clasping on to something such as an apple or a tree limb to express the act of maintaining belief in a conceptual view of the world.  We only have a limited arsenal of tools to use to convey mental ideas to one another.  Especially when we are discussing intangible ideas such as religious beliefs the vocabulary available for express meaning to one another represents a serious constraint, for some even more so than others.
   Thus I ask you, how can one be expected to convey a theological religious thought without resorting to analogy and alliteration and metaphor?  Is there a sufficient collection of terms to describe abstract non material concepts such as those one would expect be addressed within the musings of the inerrant word of the perfect and incorruptible god?  Are there any words for that matter except less than perfect human constructs in which to convey these otherwise inerrant and literally infallible pearls of perfection?  This is a quandary.