G.L. Archer, editor of the "Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties" (Zondervan Press), begins his introduction with this suggestion about how to handle seemingly serious contradictions and other problems in Scripture: "Be fully persuaded in your own mind that an adequate explanation exists, even though you have not yet found it. The aerodynamic engineer may not understand how a bumble bee can fly; yet he trusts that there must be an adequate explanation for its fine performance since, as a matter of fact, it does fly! Even so we may have complete confidence that the divine Author preserved the human author of each book of the Bible from error or mistake as he wrote down the original manuscript of the sacred text."