Is Faith Required For Reading The Bible Properly?

Who reads the Scriptures better—Bart Ehrman or my grandmother? One is a world-renowned scholar of the New Testament and textual critic, the other has no degrees in biblical studies nor any publications in the field. With this in mind, most would likely say Ehrman comes out victorious—sorry, grandma! But is this the best metric for reading Scripture rightly? To complicate things, Ehrman is famously an atheist while my grandmother has been a faithful disciple of Christ for longer than Ehrman has been alive. Does faith not matter for reading the Bible properly? In other words, what is required to best interpret the Scriptures? Early Christians have a unique perspective which might aid in our discussion of these questions.