Some have given a willing ear to the tempter and have talked out their unbelief and wounded the cause. Satan has claims upon them, for they have not recovered themselves from his snare. They have conducted themselves like children who were wholly unacquainted with the wiles of the tempter. They have had sufficient experience and should have understood his workings. He has suggested doubts to their minds, and, instead of repelling them at once, they have reasoned and parleyed with the archdeceiver, and listened to his reasonings, as though charmed by the old serpent. A few texts which were not perfectly explainable to the satisfaction of their own minds have been sufficient to shake the whole structure of truth and to obscure the plainest facts of the word of God. These men are erring mortals. They have not perfect wisdom and knowledge in all the Scriptures. Some passages are placed beyond the reach of human minds until such a time as God chooses, in His own wisdom, to open them. Satan has been leading some on a trail which ends in certain infidelity. They have suffered their unbelief to becloud the harmonious, glorious chain of truth, and have acted as though it was their business to solve every difficult passage of Scripture, and if our faith did not enable them to do this, it was faulty. {1T 377.1}

Nogle har lyttet til fristeren og har udtrykt deres vantro og skadet sagen. Satan har gjort krav på dem, for de er ikke kommet tilbage fra hans snare. De har opført sig som børn, der slet ikke kender til fristerens træskhed. De har haft en overfladisk erfaring og burde have forstået hans gerninger. Han har sået tvivl i deres sind og i stedet for at afvise dem, har de argumenteret og forhandlet med ærkebedrageren og lyttet til hans grunde, som er fortryllet af den gamle slange. Nogle få skriftsteder, som ikke er helt forklarlige for at tilfredsstille deres tanker, har været tilstrækkelig til at ryste hele sandhedens struktur og til at fordunkle de tydeligste fakta i Guds ord. Disse folk er fejlende mennesker. De har ikke fuldstændig visdom og kundskab til alle skrifterne. Nogle steder er sat udenfor det menneskelige sinds rækkevidde, indtil det tidspunkt som Gud, i sin egen visdom, vælger at åbne for dem. Satan har ledt nogle hen til et spor, som bestemt ender ved vantron. De har ladet deres vantro tildække sandhedens harmoniske, herlige kæde og har handlet som om det var deres opgav,e at klare ethvert svært vanskeligt sted i skriften og hvis vor tro ikke sætter dem i stand til at gøre dette, er den mangelfuld.