There are some problems in this passage. They are very technical problems [for instance, read Ezra 8:3, Ezra 8:5 and Ezra 8:10 in older and newer Bible translations]…Our doctrine of Scripture must be governed not by the problem, but by the clear assertion of what the Bible says about itself….all Scripture—not some Scripture…not [only] the Scripture without discrepancies, not Scripture without problems, not the clear bits as opposed to the unclear bits…but all of Scripture is
Derek W. H. Thomasgiven by inspiration of God, and profitable for doctrine, and reproof, and correction, and instruction in the way of righteousness…So whatever we do with the problems—and we freely admit that there are some parts of Scripture that we have not yet fully solved—we do not alter our doctrine of Scripture because we find a discrepancy or a problem here or there.1
1 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: