In the Protestant Christian world (which makes up the vast majority of America) there is one sacred text - the Bible. It is entirely correct. It is The Right Answer.
Actually, that depends on which Protestant Christian church you check out. I was raised in the Methodist church, which uses the Wesleyan Quadrilateral:
* Scripture - the Holy Bible (Old and New Testaments) * Tradition - the two millennia history of the Christian Church * Reason - rational thinking and sensible interpretation * Experience - a Christian's personal and communal journey in Christ
Each member of the church is expected to use those four things when coming to theological conclusions. Methodists are big on the personal relationship with God, and while different Methodist congregations have different views, a great many of them emphatically do not hold the Bible to be the inerrant word of God.
And I'm pretty sure they're not the only Protestants who see it that way. The whole inerrant Bible thing is a fundamentalist Protestant thing, not a Protestant thing.
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Actually, that depends on which Protestant Christian church you check out. I was raised in the Methodist church, which uses the Wesleyan Quadrilateral:
* Scripture - the Holy Bible (Old and New Testaments)
* Tradition - the two millennia history of the Christian Church
* Reason - rational thinking and sensible interpretation
* Experience - a Christian's personal and communal journey in Christ
Each member of the church is expected to use those four things when coming to theological conclusions. Methodists are big on the personal relationship with God, and while different Methodist congregations have different views, a great many of them emphatically do not hold the Bible to be the inerrant word of God.
And I'm pretty sure they're not the only Protestants who see it that way. The whole inerrant Bible thing is a fundamentalist Protestant thing, not a Protestant thing.