When I am asked what I do with them. I say, “I don’t do anything.”
“How do you explain them?”
“I don’t explain them.”
“What do you do with them?”
“Why, I believe them.”
And when I am told, “I would not believe anything that I do not understand,” I simply reply that I do.
There are many things which were dark and mysterious five years ago, on which I have since had a flood of light; and I expect to be finding out something fresh about God throughout eternity.
I make a point of not discussing disputed passages of Scripture. An old divine has said that some people, if they want to eat fish, commence by picking the bones. I leave such things till I have light on them. I am not bound to explain what I do not comprehend.
“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children, forever” (Deuteronomy 29:29); and these I take, and eat, and feed upon, in order to get spiritual strength.
Then there is a little sound advice in Titus 3:9.
“But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”