Chronicles I now learned to be not credulous only, but unfair, perhaps so far as to be actually dishonest.

Not one of the historical books of the Old Testament could approve itself to me as of any high antiquity or of any spiritual authority; and in the New Testament I found the first three books and the Acts to contain many doubtful and some untrue accounts, and many incredible miracles.
Many persons, after reading thus much concerning me, will be apt to say: "Of course then you gave up Christianity ?"--Far from it.

I gave up all that was clearly untenable, and clung the firmer to all that still appeared sound.

I had found out that the Bible was not to be my religion, nor its perfection any tenet of mine: but what then! Did Paul go about preaching the Bible?
nay, but he preached Christ.

The New Testament did not as yet exist: to the Jews he necessarily argued from the Old Testament; but that "faith in the book" was no part of Paul's gospel, is manifest from his giving no list of sacred books to his Gentile converts.