Bible.21 The answers varied, but none of the candidates pointed out that the question is meaningless at best and forces a false dichotomy at worst. The dichotomy implied in these kinds of questions is that if another person does not subscribe to the same (often literalist) interpretation, they obviously do not regard the Bible as sacred or as God’s word. The difficulty of justifying one interpretive approach over another is certainly an immense task, and I address it to some degree below, but what