The Bible is not a perfect book. It does not need to be a perfect book for there to be revelation loud and clear for those who have ears to hear. The significance of this is that the Protestant foundational article concerning the inspiration of Scripture is unnecessary. There is no need to begin one’s faith by trusting a perfect text, there has never been such a thing and there will never be such a thing. The weakness of beginning with a theory of inspiration will always be that one must begin with establishing faith in the text in order to establish faith in God. Theories of inspiration, of how God must be or act and then how God relates to texts or writers are a detriment to clear gospel thinking. The starting point of the resurrection gospel is trust in Jesus’ message from the Abba, ‘Shalom’.
— Michael Hardin, What the Facebook?
