You have 2 choices: you believe it or you don’t believe it. Either it is authority… or it isn’t. It doesn’t depend on you understanding every thing, it depends on whether you accept it as infallible. Very simple and yet life hangs in the balance – your life. Sometimes it’s only an issue of pride – you accepting that the Bible is the living word of God. That it is the Father’s love letter to man, showing man all that God promises He will do.
You can’t choose which parts of scripture to accept and which to discard. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (2Timothy 3:16) From that statement you can deduce that scripture is our guide, our manual for living. And yes, there are parts that are hard to understand which requires us to accept that: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. … My ways (are) higher than your ways…” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Also, scripture is not contradictory plus we see that Scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35) Thus, it is trustworthy because it doesn’t change with the winds – it is. Granted, we don’t always see the how and where of connections and we may think that what is said in one place is contradicted in another, but as we study the apparent contradictions we will find that it doesn’t invalidate itself. It is our responsibility to seek understanding so that we don’t stand on shifting sands.
As we grow and mature as Christians we discover new things we hadn’t seen or understood before. This is one of the reasons that you never outgrow scripture and with each reading you understand more. You read one verse and see how it ties back and confirms a previous prophecy. You begin to understand and appreciate how scripture confirms itself, how prophecies spoken hundreds of years earlier are performed, how God’s might and power have always been. And that only scratches the surface.
