If you go to a service in almost any Christian church, it is probable that at some point the person who is conducting it will read aloud to the congregation one or more passages from the Bible; he may introduce them with some such words as ‘Hear the Word of God, as it is written in the Scriptures of the Old Testament, in the Book of Genesis, chapter three and verse one.’ This announcement sums up a problem that sooner or later we all have to face as Christians. What does