Sentence:  Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while and , like some higher critical friends , trying to continue to <WSD>use</WSD> the Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations : 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose