Hello Shuan,
You wrote: I would reject the idea that the Bible was written deliberately to
confuse
people.
Do you also reject the idea that Jesus deliberately worded some of His
parables in a way that would confuse some people? If you do, you reject Jesus
Christ's own quite clearly spoken words. (Luke 8:10; Mt. 13:10-15) Since
Christ said that He worded His parables in a way which would hide their
meanings from those whose "hearts" had "become calloused," and since those
parables are recorded in the Bible, logic dictates that at least some parts
of the Bible are worded in a way to deliberately confuse some people, those
with hearts which are not open to God. And, as I have said before, since the
same One who deliberately worded His parables to conceal their meaning from
some people inspired the writing of the rest of the Bible, we have good
reason to believe that other parts of the Bible have also been written in the
same way.
The fact is, the Bible itself clearly indicates that God "closed up and
sealed" the full meaning of some portions of the scriptures from everyone
until a time long after they were written. (Dan. 12:4) If God did this with
some of Daniel's prophecies it seems quite possible to me that He may have
also done this with some other portions of scripture, including parts of
Genesis.
You wrote: I believe that the Bible is in principle comprehensible.
I agree. At least all the parts of it which have ever been necessary for
people to understand in order for them to find salvation. However, since
Daniel tells us that knowledge would increase at the time of the end, we can
only understand that parts of the Bible were deliberately written in a way
would prevent all of its contents from being properly understood prior to
that time. (Dan. 12:4)
Mike
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