Coming from a Catholic background, we'd call the blind belief that a piece of text is the accurate and perfect word of God delusion, not faith. Free will, which

Coming from a Catholic background, we'd call the blind belief that a piece of text is the accurate and perfect word of God delusion, not faith. Free will, which is also to our understanding a divine gift, is what allows us to differentiate between what's worthy of faith and what's not. Its separating the wheat from the chaff, as it were. Hence the need for scholarship. The idea that a text has to be perfectly passed down from God to justify faith and that reciprocally faith dictates that you cannot allow yourself to believe that it isn't is alien to Nicean Christianity.