Some truths are acceptable because they are obvious by themselves. We do not need biblical education to know them, although they are already in Bible. We read Bible in order to recognize those truths in it, and to be reminded of them. However, there are truths that are not clear by themselves, and for knowing them we need revelation of omniscient Authority, we need special God's revelation. To question "Which book represents God's revelation?", stating that one book itself is the evaluation of God is not enough. There are various books which state for themselves to be divinely inspired. Because of that we cannot and we must not look for an answer relating to the authority itself, but we should reach it through thinking an reasonable testing the worth of our confidence in certain authority.

When we are occupied by the question whether some revelation is from God, we pray God to give us reason, honesty and courage to recognize the truth. Searching for the truth, we could experience a real psychic crisis, in which we are becoming aware of our superficiality (inability to realize a difference between "goodness" and goodness, between deceit and truth). But, being humble, we will be attracted to God by His Holy Spirit. Our awakened consciousness reveals our weakness, which could become God's strength in our lives, if we do not, in the meantime, deaden it by various systems. In God we are finding strength and readiness to accept truth, although it is not acceptable for our expectations and our natural tendencies. The truth must be practical. It must not offer partial solutions but has to be the perfect answer to human needs. It tells our mind how to use our will in the right way and how to protect ourselves from evil. It gives a reasonable answer not to unimportant but to the essential needs of our being. In its essence the truth is good because it discovers God's love for us (but not for our sins and self-justified urges). By thinking about the point (the sense) of its teaching, we recognize also the readiness of the truth to endure every criticism and re-questioning.

Understanding the truth we are recognizing the controversy between the good and the evil, which also exists in our life. The truth helps us to distinguish the God's voice from voice of our sinful and self-righteous Ego.

Maybe we shall hear an "internal voice" in our thinking. But we must not allow that to think and decide for us. It can only give us advice because we do not know if it is from God or from Satan. We accept the truth because we understood it and not because we got a sign that it is really it. On the basis of what was said we see the worthiness of the one who speaks.

When we study the Bible we recognize the spiritual truths in it which are clear by themselves (easy to understand). On the basis of them we accept the authority of the One who tells them. We understand that their author is God.

The truths that are not clear themselves we get to know and confirm by relating to by then already confirmed authority of the One who tells them. Those are, for example, the truths about the question of a man's life after death, in which part of the universe is God's throne etc. There are also the truths which represent the trial stone for our trust in God and test our obedience (love) for God, as, for example, the truth about whether a man will really die if he eats the fruit of recognizing good and evil.

It is clear to us that for the answer to all these questions we need the omniscient Authority.

We can check various theories which are trying to give answers to those questions reasonably. All those theories can be even logically correct but they exclude each other at the same time. By the reason itself we are not able to get to know which one of them is the right one.

When we are faced by suppositions, it is realistic to have a reserved attitude towards them. But if we already have the reasonable foundation of trust in the One who gives us the answer to all those questions then we should believe Him. For example, we believe ourselves that we can do many things although it is reasonably not clear to us how we succeed in doing them. But that faith in our ability must be reasonable. We must reasonably research its foundations and see if there is any sense in believing that we can do what we want.

We should understand the truths that can be understood reasonably.

Therefore, on the spiritual level we must reasonably investigate the foundations of our trust in the One in whom we believe in order to be sure that it is really Him and in order to be sure that our relationship with Him is really correct.

Let us think of Adam and Eve. They were tried by the question of whom to believe.

The disputable (and trial) question was whether they were going to die if they had eaten the fruit of getting to know good and evil.

To that question they could get no answer by thinking about the chemical characteristics of the fruit. In that case the forbidden fruit would not have the function of the trial stone of their faith, because it would not test their obedience (love) for God, but maybe only their intelligence and their being informed. The answer to the asked question revealed the object of their trust and confidence and because of that it was spiritually functional.

They were in two minds about trusting God and trusting the snake who talked. Who were they to believe?

They could not investigate by reason if the fruit were really lethal or not, but they could investigate by reason the Object of their trust.

Their trust in God had reasonable foundations. They knew that He created them and that He loved them. God gave them the most beautiful planet, without a trifle of evil and doom. He presented them with a blessing of his friendship. In the moment of temptation their common sense reminded them of all that. They had reasonable foundations of the trust in God. To the question whether they were really going to die if they ate the forbidden fruit they had a worthy answer. However, instead of following the way of reason they allowed themselves to be moved by the flattering promises of the one tempting them, the promises and the false hopes which take the generations of human kind into sin and ruin them still today.

The prerequisite of trust in someone is the knowledge of his character. The more we get to know a man the less we will believe him whether it is about getting to know another man or oneself. (Of course, only under the condition of that we do not diminish life goals!)

"Thus says the Lord: Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals, and make mere flesh their strength... Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord... The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse - who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:6-9).

There is only One who is Sinless. By getting to know God's character more, our trust in the Only One who is worthy of our trust and the Only One who is free from human weaknesses will develop.

A false teaching builds the trust too, but not in God and His word, but in a man and his authority (church...) to interpret the truth.

Therefore, for example, by their teaching, Jehovah's witnesses lead a man to approach the authority of the Holy Bible with doubt so that the man will afterwards, as an answer to the aroused doubt, find security in the authority of their organization as in the unmistakable interpreter of the truth. How do they achieve such transition of the authority from the Bible to themselves?

They stir the attitude of doubt toward clear messages of the Holy Bible by symbolic interpretation of its verse, (as if God were unable to express Himself clearly and directly) so that a man feels that an external authority which would interpret them in a right way is necessary. In addition, they stir the doubt in the Holy Bible by seeing the foundation points of their teaching in those passages which are thought as changed and omitted due to bad translations from the original Biblical manuscripts so that their followers need again to trust in the organization of The Guarding Tower, which will tell them "what is right and what is not".

In the traditional Christianity the authority of the Holy Bible is often separated from man by the claim that only an institution of formal ("visible") church can interpret the Bible in a right and inspired way so that a man is forced again to build the trust in the church as an institution and not in God.

It is not enough only to have "reasonable" foundations of our trust. It is necessary that God be the object of our trust, and not a sinful and mortal man who is, like ourselves, prone to weaknesses and misconceptions.

The apostle Paul sends us a warning:

"See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ." (Colossians 2:8)