This article will cite scriptures that give examples of people that were able to understand the teachings of God’s book. The Bible is divided into two major parts, the Old and New Testaments. God made it quite clear to us in Psalms 119:103-106 where three things were declared.

One merely has to ask the simple question, if the Old Testament’s scriptures cannot be understood, then how could the writer of the book of Psalms have made those statements?

In Psalms 119:129-130 the following words were penned by a man of God, "Thy testimonies are wonderful therefore doth my soul keep them. The entrance of thy words giveth understanding unto the simple." The person recording these words of God is saying that he was a doer of those things and that they give understanding even unto the simple.

Psalms 119:110 it is proclaimed that the wicked have failed in their attempt to prevent me from following God’s precepts. How could this be accomplished without the ability to understand those precepts?

Acts 17:10 we have Luke’s written record of Paul’s declaration of Old Testament scriptures unto the people of Berea. Then in Acts 17:11 he stated that those people searched the scriptures so they might know if Paul was teaching the truth. Now the fact that those people were able to do that proves that they were capable of understanding the Old Testament scriptures; otherwise, how could they have compared the teachings of Paul with the teaching of the scriptures?

The New Testament gives us many examples of those were capable of understanding the teachings within it. Acts 2 gives us an account of Peter’s teaching the words of the new covenant unto a great multitude of people in Jerusalem. Acts 2:37 says after hearing the word "…they were pricked in their hearts." We find recorded in Acts 2:41 that the ones who gladly received his teachings were baptized. This same scripture also reveals that three thousand people were baptized. If these three thousand people couldn’t understand the words they heard would they have been pricked in their hearts and baptized?

In Acts 8 the account of Philip preaching the gospel of Christ unto the people of Samaria is recorded. In Acts 8:12 it states, "But when they believed Philip’s preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women."

The Ethiopian eunuch, the gentiles of Antioch, Lydia, the jailer in Philippi, three people in Athens and Felix and King Agrippa are also examples of others who after having heard the teaching of Christ, as taught by his inspired teachers, became believers. All people know, or should know, that even genuine evidence which cannot be understood, will not make believers of those that hear it.

Romans 10:17 declares that faith comes by hearing and inasmuch as all those people, after having heard believed, then it necessarily follows that they understood what they heard. Paul in Romans 6:17-18 said to the Roman people, "you were made free from sin when you obeyed the doctrine delivered unto you." How could they have obeyed that which they did not understand?

We no longer say swimming the English Channel, flying a shuttle into space, and even visiting the moon are impossible feats. Why? Simply put, there are examples that each of these things has been accomplished. Understanding the Bible is felt by some to be an impossible feat as well, but just like the items above have been accomplished by people and therefore made believable, so should one believe the Bible because of all the examples of people that were able to understand it.