No Problem Passages

I'm reading a book from Douglas Wilson called Proof as Moral Obligation. I had no idea what the book was about when I started it, but have found it to be really interesting. I am in chapter 8 and thought I would share an excerpt. 

One of the best things my father ever taught me -- and there were many to choose from -- was the idea that the Christian should resolve in his heart never to have any problem passages in Scripture. It was permissible to have a problem with how best to understand a passage, but it was not permissible to have any problems with it once you understood it. Once the exegesis was done, the thing was settled. And you wanted to make sure there was no funny business in the course of the exegesis either ... appealing to Greek word studies to get yourself off the hook, for example. 

This is not, as many would represent it, a mindless fundamentalism. It is not a means of sticking to your guns after some haphazard attempt at exegesis. But while it is not a ramshackle dogmatism, it is right at the foundation of a true biblical absolutism. It is not a chaotic and shambolic bluster, but rather a sane decision to look to the light in a very dark world. 

God is a Rock, and His Word is a rock. unregenerate man wants to believe that he is stable, and his basis for thinking this is that there are periodic times of tranquility and calm, and he thinks he has a root in himself simply because of inertia. The first part of Newton's first law tells us that an object at rest tends to stay at rest. Autonomous man is a billiard ball that believes himself to be immovable simply because a cue ball hasn't hit him yet. 

In contrast, the believer trusts in his God, who is a Rock. And when believers trust in Christ, and do what He says, they are building their house on a rock (Matthew 7:25), one that is fully capable of withstanding any storm. 

There are probably other excerpts that would better represent this book, but this is the one that was before me at the moment. The Kindle version was still free, last I checked. I would like to encourage you to pick it up. 

Proof as Moral Obligation
by Douglas Wilson