My view of the Bible

We go through the Bible day in day out being taught such terms that the scriptures are: authority, inerrant, infallible, revelation, objective, absolute, and literal. These are so important that some churches make it their core belief in that. But were in the Bible does it say they are any of those things?

For one, how can the layman of today understand those terms we often say the Bible is without some background knowledge of the sciences, the Enlightenment, philosophy etc (I am part of the group that knows very little about them) which provides the context in which we have doctrine that say the Bible is all those things I've listed above.

Hence, I propose a new way of seeing the holy scriptures for the people of today. Not that I'm saying those things about authority, and inerrancy etc are not true, or that I no longer believe in it. I merely suggest that we should look at it this way: The Bible is good for preparing God's people for good works.

I would like to one day understand how our church forefathers came up with these terms in description of the Bible and the struggling they would have to over come to get to these doctrines. But for me today, I would much prefer to accept the latter.

That is something my simple mind can comprehend. That is something I can accept.