John Barton states that the Bible is "a big baggy compendium of a book, full of variety and inconsistency, sometimes mistaken on matters of fact and theology alike."It is quite possible that the Bible is intended to sound incomprehensible to non-believers.
That said, I think John Barton is going to be quite surprised after his spirit leaves his body. He is not only turning his back on God, he is deceiving others into doing the same.
Rather, Barton examples those, who, like exegesis-ignorant anti-theists he parrots, typically ignore context immediate and or larger, and linguistics, etc., and confuse complementarity with contradictions. Such as in asserting that statements as Titus 1:2 contradict statements as 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10.
[[It is quite possible that the Bible is intended to sound incomprehensible to non-believers.]]
In a video titled, “Christianity’s Fatal Error”, a fellow takes the position that God cannot be “omni-” as Christianity claims because He has done such a poor job of leaving a document about himself that is poorly written and impossible to understand.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5aZXXx3E6U&ab_channel=HolyKoolaid
Could it be that a God, who is not only “omni-” but “Mega-omni-” is capable of writing in such a way that one reader will exclaim, “Fabulous! Now I know how to save my soul.” while another reader will say that “Every page of this is just a bunch of gibberish.” ???
That is plausible to me.
The Bible always confirms itself over and over again in Scripture.
When a debased mind cannot comprehend the error of their ways based on what is written and what they read - that could easily spell doom for many.
Most don’t want to know the truth.