mistakes, and what the divine author, God, “proposes for our belief” with the text is what we “ought to believe.” Plantinga clarifies his position (in a different article in the same issue of the journal we cited above, where he replies to Ernan McMullin): I think he thinks what is decisive here is what the human author(s) of the text in question had in mind. If that is what he means, I am obliged to disagree with him. In order to understand Scripture, we must know who its author and audience is