Packer on Liberal Interpretation of the Bible

When leaders of theology (liberal theologians) thus decline to treat any of the statements of our thousand-plus-page, million-and-a-half-word Bible as information from God to us and trumpet abroad that there can be no such thing as God given information and that it is an intellectual mistake to look for any, it is no wonder if folk lose faith in the capacity of biblical speech to tell us facts about our Maker. Were we all clearheadedly logical we should see ourselves as called by this situation to choose between such modern theologians as those just mentioned and such older ones as Moses and the prophets, Jesus Christ, Peter, Paul, John, and the author of Hebrews. Seeing the issue that way we might resolve that, on this point at least, we should ditch the moderns. But because many people are muddleheadedly conventional, it is not always realized that this is the choice that faces us; nor, even when it is realized, is the right decision always made.

J. I. Packer, from "Inerrancy", p. 205, ed. Geisler.