The writer Mark Twain once quipped, "Some people are troubled by the things in the Bible they can't understand. The things that trouble me are the things I can understand." Yes, many people have the idea that the message of the Bible is troubling, depressing, bad news. They have a sense of not having lived entirely the way they should have, and simply hope that the good that they do will outweigh the bad. They nervously plan on slipping into heaven on that basis.