So here is the answer the site gave back to me when I asked "are you saying the Bible is not integral to the Christian life"
we are not saying the Bible isn't important.
However, we are pushing back against the common prominence and importance that Biblical literalists and inerrantists so often give it.
They give it the status of perfection and infallibility. We disagree with this.
They give it the status of being --literally-- the words of God, as if they were dictated to people who transcribed them word for word. We do not.
They give it the status of being equivalent to God when they call the Bible God's Word - capital W - which we equate with idolatry.
They wrongly see scripture verses that talk about God's word and think it is referring to "The Bible" when it is not.
They wrongly ascribe belief in the Bible in the way in which they believe in the Bible as necessary for salvation as if "holding proper beliefs about the bible" is essential for salvation and in some way salvific.
We take the Bible very seriously.
We give the Bible credit for being very important and useful.
But we do not deify the Bible in the way we see other Christians do. And we see this elevation of status and deification as often problematic because it leads to inaccurate literalism and dogma that ends up hurting the cause of Christ.
Wow!
Late to the party here, but my take is this:
Technically they are right, the Bible can be twisted and was twisted even by Satan when he used verses, therefore to call it infallible is often misleading. It is not God even if God is in it and uses it.
However the heart of what God has spoken to mankind corporately -- his Word to us as a group -- is in the Bible. Mankind's error and need for God, and God's very personal response, the Gospel.
Wilkinson cites doctrines and verses that offend the world's sensibilities and human-centered value systems. Presumably these are his reasons for demoting the authority of the Bible. These are the wrong reasons. It is fine to point out the humanity of the Bible and how then, as now, people can misinterpret and misapply. It is vital to point out the need for humility, compassion, and real love towards neighbors and enemies.
It is not okay to use the humanity of the Bible as justification to mix in worldly teachings. "I don't understand this or am offended by this, therefore I will improve it by adding something the world at large will find easier to stomach." Absolutely not from the Holy Spirit. In the spiritual realm, the world's system and God's system are built on different values and cannot coexist. So to mix them is to expand the world's system.
The world by default worships the human experience and gives authority to the human experience in how it defines its values. That, and, modern western culture is somewhat oblivious to the cost of life and the privilege it enjoys relative to most other humans throughout history. This is why they are offended by a God that did not treat all human life the way they pretend to treat it. This is also why they're in a terrible position to project ethics onto ancient scenarios.
When this website says, above all, love, I wonder if they are putting love above the truth. In God, love and truth are vitally interdependent. Love requires trust, but dishonesty destroys intimacy and creates distance. So you have to have truth to provide a framework for real love. If you put love above all, even above truth, you are not talking about God's love, but a worldly form of love, which becomes code for 'love humanity above all (even above God)'. Yes you can idolize the bible, but you can idolize love too, if you separate it from God's truth, it becomes man's love and not God's true love.