Kenneth Berding used to think everything in the Bible should be easy to understand.
There was a part of me that thought that the Bible should be easy to understand. I mean, if it’s really from God and if God wrote it to teach us his character and ways, including the way of salvation, you would think that it would be easy to understand, wouldn’t you?
But the same grounds—connecting the nature of the Bible with the nature of God—eventually leads to a different conclusion.
I was assuming that God should be easy to comprehend—that everything about God should be immediately accessible. But unless God himself chose to create a world in which everything is simple to understand—and tells us that it is so—I was simply forcing my assumption upon God that his communication should be easily and quickly understood, at least by me.
If you have struggled with wondering why parts of the Bible are so difficult to understand, Berding’s reflections may encourage you.
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