“The Holy Spirit is no skeptic”; instead, the Spirit writes sure assertions on our hearts, more certain than life itself and all experience. Another point dealt with Erasmus’s statement that some things in the Bible were obscure; one should therefore just devoutly accept them.22 According to Luther, this was true of God himself, but not of the Bible, aside from certain passages where there were philological difficulties. This optimistic view had a deep theological basis. The real content of the Bible