Is the Bible Authoritarian?

Our accountability is to the biblical author's intentions, what he intended to communicate by the language he used and the context in which he wrote. If you get one of the gideon bibles, in the front it says, what problem are you having? And here's the passage you should read. It has a lot to doo how we think about authority and where the authority is located. As you often say, the bible is written for us, not to us. That's wight, and we are not so. But it always requires an act it of interpretation. And that act of interpretation is subject to human error,. So an an can we teach anything? Were screwed with authority