..but it is NOT going to be a bunch of folks who have come up with stuff that has no basis in Scripture.
Fine, though you really cannot do that. Scripture was, at some point, brought to the world via a "bunch of folks who have come up with stuff that ha[d] no basis in Scripture." It is unavoidable.
The bible, tossed into a blender, and bits and pieces getting stuck together does NOT impress me.
I am always intrigued by the Evangelical idea of the Bible. It is so completely strange to me. To think of it as somehow independent of the entire Christian tradition and community of faith is just so odd. How could it possibly make sense in that perspective? Personally, I view the Bible as inerrant and authoritative, but only because the Church witnesses to that. The Spirit lives in His Bride, and it is that which leads me to faith, and not the book. The book can only have its origin in the Bride, and it can never be otherwise, and so I could never think of turning these two around. I come to the Book because of the Church, and not the reverse. My approach is like that of St. Augustine, who said "As for myself, I believe the Gospels only because the authority of the Church had already moved me." Your statement above just doesn't reflect anything I can make sense of, and so I must think it is a product of that rather peculiar perspective that is itself so inexplicable to me.
I, likewise, am intrigued as to what that idea might be.
I wasn't aware that Evangelicals 'think' this.