DAY 329
CHALLENGE
“If God wants us to know him, and if the Bible is his word, why isn’t it clearer?”
DEFENSE
Several answers may be given.
First, much of the Bible is quite clear, including many of its main teachings (e.g., there is one God, who created the world, and who loves man enough to send his Son to die on a cross so we might be saved from our sins). So is the main sequence of events it narrates. For the most part, it tends to be the subsidiary points that are less clear.
Second, the Bible was written in a certain period of time and in a certain culture. It therefore reflects...
