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“The Bible is not a book of answers but a library of questions.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
“The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices or guarantee your health, wealth, and happiness and demand that God 'follow through' as promised. God is not limited to the words of Scripture. God is still speaking.”
“The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.”
“The Bible is not a book on how to live your life. It’s a book on how to live above your life.”
“The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.”
Source: Devotions for a Deeper Life
“The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the church, given for a particular purpose: to shape that community into the kind of people who can fulfill their commission to make disciples of all nations and steward God’s good creation, anticipating its final redemption.”
Source: The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
“The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.”
“The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.”
“The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people. Far from being a book full of moral heroes whom we are commanded to emulate, what we discover is that the so-called heroes in the Bible are not really heroes at all. They fall and fail; they make huge mistakes; they get afraid; they're selfish, deceptive, egotistical, and unreliable. The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness.”
Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
“The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers .”
“The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.”
“The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.”
“The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.”
Source: The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World
“The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Experience, dialogue, feelings, and conversations are equated with Scripture while certitude, authority, and doctrine are to be eschewed! No doctrines are to be absolute and truth or doctrine must be considered only with personal experiences, traditions, historical leaders, etc. The Bible is not an answer book.”
“The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances.”
“The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.”
Source: Good Book: Discovering The Bible's Place In Our Liv
“The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]”
“The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.”
“The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.”
“The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.”
“The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
“The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.”
Source: What Every Christian Ought to Know
“The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.”
“The bible is not progressive because it is perfect. It doesn't change with time because it is eternal. Never remove the autonomy of the Bible, not even in your mind, otherwise, men will begin to edit the truth, adjust ancient landmarks and broaden the narrow way.”
“The Bible is not religion, nor are the Vedas. The Torah is not religion, nor is the Quran, or any other scripture on earth.”
“The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.”
“The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.””
“The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.”
Source: How to Read the Bible as Literature
“The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him.”
“The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.”
Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.”
“The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.”
“The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.”
“The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.”
“the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.”
“The Bible is our authority in everything it touches. This means the Bible is our guide to show us how to live . . . it is our instructor.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.”
“The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.”
“The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.”
Source: Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible
“The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.”
Source: Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon
“The Bible is psychopathic and anti-woman.”
“The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product man is supposed to live. If we learn those principles and obey them, then we find that the process of failure to success becomes more inevitability than experiment.”
“The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.”
“The Bible is right: A deluge of images does encourage idolatry. Look at the cults of personality in America today. Look at Hollywood. Look at Washington. I'd like to see the next presidential race be run according to Second Commandment principles. No commercials. A radio-only debate. We need an ugly president. I know we're missing out on some potential Abe Lincolns because they'd look gawky and gangly on TV.”
Source: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
“The Bible is right and everybody else is wrong.”
“The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.”
“The Bible is so deep! As the 6th-century church father Gregory put it: "Scripture is like a river...shallow enough...for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough...for the elephant to swim." It's humbling to be involved in projects that make the riches of the Bible accessible to Bible teachers and students.”
“The Bible is spectacular in the sense that it is full of analogies that can be conveyed to any situation and a history of recorded life choices that are simple yet as profound as trading prosperity for soup.”
“The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the world of literature.”