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“The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.”
“The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people who want help. It's primarily a book for pastors. They're the ones that can use it in a way so that it actually achieves its purpose.”
“The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?”
“The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery. People enslave, rape, and murder members of their immediate families. Warlords slaughter civilians indiscriminately, including the children. Women are bought, sold, and plundered like sex toys. And Yahweh tortures and massacres people by the hundreds of thousands for trivial disobedience or for no reason at all. These atrocities are neither isolated nor obscure. They implicate all the major characters of the Old Testament, the ones that Sunday-school children draw with crayons. And they fall into a continuous plotline that stretches for millennia, from Adam and Eve through Noah, the patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, the judges, Saul, David, Solomon, and beyond.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.”
“The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.”
Source: The Da Vinci Code: A Novel
“The Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the Bible is a constant companion. No matter how often we read it or how familiar we become with it, some new truth is likely to spring out at us from its pages whenever we open it, or some old truth will impress us as it never did before. Every Christian can give illustrations of this.”
Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan
“The bible divides mankind, god will decide our fate.”
“The Bible does not contain the Word of God; It is the Word of God.”
“The Bible does not deny that we were various things—addicts, homosexuals, hateful, prideful, pornographic masturbators—but that is what we were (past tense) (1 Cor. 6:9-11; Titus 3:3-5). The emphasis in Scripture is on what we are and what we are called to be. The Christian does not say, Hello, my name is _____ and I am an X Y or Z.” The Christian says I was dead, but now I am alive. The Christian says I am a struggling sinner, yet I am a saint. The Christians says I am a new creation; I am transformed.”
“The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.”
“The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass.”
“The Bible does not say anything about communism, OK? The Bible has a whole lot to say about sex. It has a whole lot to say about homosexuality. And so you can't compare the two and say these are - these are the same. That's just ludicrous. It's just - it's not the same.”
“The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.”
Source: Healology
“The bible does not say that a man's education makes room for him, but that his gifts does. Education is not the key to success, it doesn,t guarantee anything; it is your gift that is the key to success”
“The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God's message in the boldness of the Holy Spirit. This will build God's church God's way.”
Source: Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
“The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.”
Source: The Me I Want to Be
“The Bible does not speak to all issues (for example, where did AIDS come from?), and science says little about doctrine (for example, is the doctrine of the Trinity true?), but it does not follow from this that there can be no overlap. Instead, Christian theists resolve the alleged conflict between science and faith by conceding that while the Bible is infallible, science and theology are not. Both disciplines are subject to correction by the other.”
Source: The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture
“The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.”
“The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.”
Source: How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil
“The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are fine-but they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling.”
“The Bible doesn't like cyclical views of history. The reason it doesn't is that a cycle is a machine, and a cyclical view of history means a machine turning, something impersonal. Such a view would be part of that perverse tendency on the part of mankind to enslave himself to his own inventions and his own conceptions. Man invented the wheel, and so in no time at all he's talking about wheels of fate and wheels of fortune as something that are stronger than he is. That's the Frankenstein element in the human mind, an element which is part of original sin.”
Source: Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture
“The bible doesn't say Jesus had a power to command, only to recommend, which leaves each one of us with an individual freedom of choice. Maybe it's just that there are too many of us making too many bad choices for the good of the whole." He took a bite out of his apple. "Too many people and none of us wanting or able to hear the harmony.”
“The Bible doesn’t tell us exactly why God wasn’t satisfied with the fruits and veggies Cain offered up. Maybe he kept the juiciest peaches and sweetest mangoes for himself and offered God nothing but brussels sprouts and spinach.”
Source: The Bible: Enter Here: Bringing God's Word to Life for Today's Teens
“The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.”
“The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.”
“The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.”
“The Bible explains that Satan is real, nurses a serious grudge and has impressive power. But having been created, he has limitations. He can never be equal to God in anything."--Kristine McGuire, An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 3, "Know Your Enemy.”
Source: An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare: 20 Battle Tested Strategies from Behind Enemy Lines
“The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death”
“The Bible frequently uses symmetries and inversions. By such comparisons (parallels and contrasts) the unique aspects of reality begin to emerge. Comparing two objects makes their differences increasingly apparent. Only then can we ask, “Why does this one have that, and the other does not?” For instance: The phrase, “and it was
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good” is present on all the days of creation—except the second day. Why? Because, “two” contains potential badness, to a Hebrew. We could not have discovered that insight, unless we contrasted God’s description of the creative days.”
Source: The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians
“The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.”
“the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".”
“The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.”
“The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.”
“The Bible had at best become like the work of Ovid or Homer: containing great truth, but not itself true.”
Source: The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
“The Bible had become the breaking point, and I was no longer interested in believing in something that didn’t believe in me.”
Source: Unprotected: A Memoir
“The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent and precision, the Bible can cut deeply, while on the one holding it can claim with impunity that "this is from God.”
Source: Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is one which all those who value their Bible should know, at least in outline, if only that they may be able to meet the criticisms of sceptics and the ignorant.”
“The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young.”
“The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.”
“The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?”
“The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.”
“The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.”
“The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.”
Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel
“The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.”
Source: I, Rigoberta Menchú: an Indian woman in Guatemala
“The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.”
“The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”