My theological stance...has been dramatically shaped by the Seminex experience. Our critics back in the 1960s and 1970s located the Bible's authority in its inspiration and inerrancy. We too recognized the Spirit's central role in the composition and preservation of the scriptures, but we knew that Moses did not write the Pentateuch or Isaiah all sixty-six chapters and that the Bible contained historical, geographical, and other "errors." The Bible is not a perfect book. What gives the Bible authority is its central, saving message, that is, the gospel. By the word gospel we referred to what was accomplished in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
Ralph W. Klein, “Reading the Bible as “Lutherans” in the Twenty-First Century” in Subject to None, Servant of All, 189-190.
