Quakers and The Bible
In Britain, most Friends regard the Bible as by far the greatest printed source of inspiration, but not the only one. They read it along with all the other books, old and new, which can guide us in life.
But they are not among those who take any ‘holy’ book as being literally the ‘Word of God’. They see too many puzzling contradictions in it. With new knowledge of how the Bible came to be written, collected, and translated, they recognise it as the work of human beings, inspired by their faith experiences.
They find modern scholarship very useful in getting to grips with the Bible and other great books.