So take for example one of my Bile professors, who has “slipped down the slope” — so to speak — so far as to (i think) question the virgin birth and the bodily resurrection of Jesus — both things I am not comfortable doing, btw. In some sense she’s the poster child for the slippery slope argument. And yet her faith and hope in God, as well as her care for the poor and marginalized is as strong as any other Christian I have known (and much stronger then most).

Contrast that with most people I know who hold strongly to an innerancy view of scripture. It seems to me that they actually live in fear and not in hope. Because they have to spend their religious energy making sure that their “house of cards” won’t be shaken. And they do not live with the sense of hope and service that I see in in my professor.

And what does Christianity give us if not hope and love for the other?