"'But,' you perhaps say, 'there are so many obscure passages in the Bible, whole books that are practically riddles.' To that I would answer: Before I have anything to do with this objection, it must be made by someone whose life manifests that he has scrupulously complied with all the passages that are easy to understand; is this the case with you? Yet this is how the lover would respond to the letter- if there were obscure passages but also clearly expressed ones, he would say, 'I must comply with the wish- then I will see about the obscure parts. How could I ever sit down and ponder the obscure passages and not comply with the wish, the wish that I clearly understood.'"

--Soren Kierkegaard in "What is Required" in For Self-Examination