When I turned my eye back to the emerging church or back to my friend's classic liberalism, I saw that at the center of it all stood a denial of the authority of the Word of God. These people read the Bible and preached the Bible and wrote about the Bible and professed to honor the Bible, but all the while they denied the full authority of the Bible. They accepted God's Word on their own terms. But God gives us no such option. To take the Bible at any terms but its own is to reject the Bible altogether.http://www.challies.com/articles/why-i-am-not-liberal