Suppose I want to rent a house. I see a notice in the window of a likely house to the effect that it is for sale or for rent. I knock at the door and ask the man who opens it, “Are you the renter of this house?”
“Yes, sir,” he replies.
“Very well. I would like to rent it, but before I do, I want to know how many bricks there are in the chimney, who built the cellar and how many pounds of nails there are in the whole building.”
What would you think of such questions? Yet there are foolish people who ask such questions about the Bible. They want to know who was Cain’s wife, who was Melchisedec’s father, and forty thousand other questions of no importance whatever.
If men and women will come to this book and ask, “What must I do to be saved?” they will obtain a simple and divine answer: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)).
How simple!