Quotes About Scripture

Protestants, in the words of the famous Protestant Biblical scholar Credner, "have built a new Church on the foundation of Scripture, first without understanding, then without the will to understand, that Scripture itself rests on nothing but Tradition.

Holy Scripture is the work of the Holy Ghost, it can be rightly and infallibly interpreted by Him alone or under His guidance. Now, God did not promise the Holy Ghost to every reader of the Bible, but only to the Church.

The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

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.

So I offer my definition of theology: theology is the application of Scripture, by persons, to every area of life.11

We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to mature in the faith.

Aunque pensaron que entendían el texto bíblico, no lo aplicaron a su propia vida ni a su experiencia del mismo Hijo de Dios que vivió en medio de ellos (Mt 16:1-4; 22:29; Jn 5:39-40).

apologetics is also application of Scripture to unbelief. Unbelief is no respecter of persons. Both Christians and non-Christians wrestle with doubt and suspicion. A biblical apologetic targets unbelief wherever it may be found, strengthening the faith of Christians and calling unbelievers to repentance and faith in Christ. The

The Bible speaks negatively of all debt.

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son.

Scripture was comforting, in direct proportion to its bitterness upon the tongue.

God's Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

God's supreme reason dictates the structure of both the supernatural and the natural order, since both reflect His eternal purpose. Truths about the first are revealed to us in the form of divine law, which means Scripture. Truths about the second are revealed to us through our senses, by means of the laws of nature.

What was the secret of the Jews' strength and virtue? Origen offered the answer. First of all, their Scripture with its power to transform multitudes, "making the coward the hero, and the wicked good." Then there was their faith: a faith more powerful than human reason alone, because it was based on still higher wisdom, the wisdom of God.

Holy Scripture and Nature are both emanations from the divine Word." Like other Platonists, Galileo didn't have to see God to believe in Him. He only had to feel His perfection in His creation and stand aside in awe.

translation of the New Testament in 1516. By exposing many of the errors of the old Latin Vulgate, Erasmus established a new appreciation for "pure Scripture" as the final authority on all things spiritual as well as many secular.

It was also Colet who suggested to Erasmus that he fuse his two interests, the Bible and ancient literature, into one. He urged him to do for ancient Christian literature, including the New Testament, what Ficino had done for Plato: use the techniques of philology to produce a clean, definitive text free from copyists' errors and scholastic muddles, a "pure Scripture" that would show people what the Bible really said, not what tradition or the allegorists said it meant.

This steadfast devotion to Latin and Greek as the basis of a liberal education instead of science or math, however, did not start as willful blindness or upper-class bias.24 It simply reflected the fact that in Erasmus's time, both languages were essential for reading the printed books of the day and for understanding Scripture as the first step toward reforming an intellectually bankrupt Church.

If Scripture teaches the imputation of sin, we should not stumble when we find it affirming the imputation of righteousness.

The God of Scripture can only be known by those to whom He makes Himself known

David declared, "Thy word have I hid in mine heart [to be awed thereby, to put it into practice] , that I might not sin against thee" (Ps. 119:11).

He only is independently, infinitely, immutably holy. In Scripture He is frequently styled "The Holy One": He is so because the sum of all moral excellency is found in Him. He is absolute Purity, unsullied even by the shadow of sin. "God

God's supremacy over the works of His hands is vividly depicted in Scripture. Inanimate matter, irrational creatures, all perform their Maker's bidding. At