Often there is a denial of the miraculous nature of not only of the origin of the scriptures, but also the miraculous nature of the events recorded in the sacred history. The vicarious atonement is denied. The resurrection, the virgin birth, the miracles, and the ascension and second coming of Jesus are all denied as myth. Truth becomes relative to the eye of the beholder.
Relativism is the watchword of the liberal modernist theologian.
Since truth is relative, the idea of Ecumenism becomes, not just a hope, but an actual moral imperative. All this edifice of lies begins with the one lie, that the Word of God is not to be trusted as historically true and reliable. Regarding textual criticism, far too much is made of the doubts that secular critics cast upon the meaning of the texts as Christians have come to accept them. These methods are not the approach that the Lord Jesus Christ took to the Old Testament, and neither did the priests and prophets of the Old Testament. The apostles approached the scriptures as a sacred, God breathed, and yes, almost divinely written document, if not the words, certainly the thoughts which these words express in the most obvious meaning of the words used.