It’s in the Bible

In the churches where I grew up, citing what the Bible said on some topic was regarded as a claim to ultimate authority. It was taken for granted that the Bible couldn’t be wrong about anything, and it was assumed that determining what the Bible taught was relatively unproblematic. People knew, of course, that other Christian groups had different interpretations of what the Bible said, but among the churches I attended there was great confidence that where these other groups taught something different from what we said, they were wrong.