We must accept our own negotiation of the Bible and faith because, in doing so, we allow all parties involved in biblical interpretation and the work of following Jesus to be their fullest selves. It is okay to disagree with the Bible. It is okay to not believe. When we afford ourselves and others the permission to accept the inadequacy of our own religious perspective, the text can be what the text was meant to be. Jesus can be what Jesus was meant to be. And we can be who we were meant to be.