Mark Twain -- not in the least a friend of Christian faith –once quipped: “It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.” 

I don't know what he meant by that one-liner, but there’s a lot of truth in what seems to be the clear sense of his words. I mean, how many people have you run across in your life who scoff at the words of Scripture because those words run afoul of their preferred lifestyle? How many ridicule the words of God printed on those pages between Genesis and Revelation because those words accuse them of their sins and warn them of a hopeless eternity unless they repent?

Let’s face it – there are lots of understandable parts of Scripture. And it is perhaps especially to those parts that all humanity will be held accountable.