Read the Bible, and you will soon admit that God could not possibly be the author of such a book.

1 min readUpdated 12 October 2022

I have read it many times. But nothing in the Bible disproves the fact of its inspiration. It may be difficult to secure the right interpretation of certain passages, or to grasp the principles involved, but our difficulty in comprehending everything, a difficulty to be expected, avails nothing against the known fact that the Bible is the Word of God.

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