The witness of the Spirit

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Arminiantheologian Roger Olson is appealing to the witness of the Spirit as a safetynet, which makes it okay to deny the inerrancy of Scripture. But that’sincoherent:
i) Our direct knowledge regarding the person and work ofthe Holy Spirit comes from the Bible. So you can’t cite the witness of theSpirit to salvage your denial of Biblical inerrancy, for your understanding ofthe Spirit is, itself, contingent on the veracity of Scripture. So the witnessof the Spirit can’t protect you against an errant Bible.
ii) The Holy Spirit is theprimary author of Scripture. To invoke the witness of the Spirit to rationalizean attack on the plenary, verbal inspiration of Scripture is an attack on thework of the Spirit.
iii) Scripture forewarns usto distinguish between competing spirits:

Beloved, do not believe everyspirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many falseprophets have gone out into the world (1 Jn 4:1).

You can’t invoke the Spiritto justify an attack on the Bible, for Word and Spirit don’t functionindependently. It’s a mutual witness. You can’t set them at odds. Without theone you lack the other. 
Olson’s position reveals thestate of modern Arminian theology, and it isn’t pretty.