Skeptics say that the Bible was written by men and is therefore fallible. They want to discredit it, because it's a massive wet blanket that falls on everything they love. Nitpickers come up with things such as the Bible saying if you wear cotton and wool you will go to hell, or a raped woman is forced to marry the rapist. These are actually straw men. For them, the ends justify any means. The ultimate end for these nitpickers is to dismantle the reality of hell. In order to do so they must discredit Scripture.
No matter what anyone believes about the Bible, it is God's Word, and the godly should approach it as such. it is full of mystery with precious gold nuggets of truth hidden in its soil. But skeptics have no inclination to dig for gold; all they see is dirt. Don't be like them. Dig for unseen gold, because if you don't dig you won't find it. God's word is a gold mine, and even Jesus spoke of searching the Scriptures (see John 5:39).
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Take, for example, 2 Samuel 21:10. King David gave seven men to be executed, to appease an unjust incident that had occurred in the past. We don't know much about these men, but we are told about the reaction of one of their mothers: "Now Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the late rain poured on them from heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night." This is just a meaningless story to the dirt finder. He sees only a bloodthirsty king doing something that makes no sense and a grieving mother scaring away birds. But those who dig for gold beneath the soil understand that this woman did what the church should be doing. Her name means "hot coal," or a stone used in cooking. We are called "lively stones" (1 Peter 2:5-9 KJV), who, clothed in the sackcloth of humility, rest upon the Rock of ages-Jesus Christ, the foundation of our faith. We should be imploring God to send the latter rain upon the harvest. "Birds of the air" are often metaphoric of the demonic realm (see Luke 8:5, 12; Genesis 15:11; Deuteronomy 28:26; Revelation 18:2), which we are to hold back through prayer.
Jesus said that the Old Testament was about Him. Jonah was swallowed by a great fish and then spit out onto the land, and Jesus was swallowed by death and then resurrected. Joseph was betrayed by his brothers and then exalted to the right hand of Pharaoh, and Jesus was betrayed by His brethren and then exalted to the right hand of God. Abraham offered his promised son, and God offered Jesus, His only-begotten Son. God hid Moses in the cleft of a rock to shelter him from the wrath, and Jesus was the Rock of ages cleft for me to save me from the wrath.
Those who look for dirt will find it. God gives the proud just enough soil to bury themselves.