Quotes About Scripture

The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.

In the beginning, Scripture taught, there was the Word, and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and language, which binds the past to the future.

Religion – the wishful thinking of an ape that talks! You know what I think?' he asked rhetorically, trying to distract himself from yet another death. 'Random shit happens, and we turn it into stories and call it sacred scripture—

Let us keep that promise – that American promise – and in the words of Scripture -- hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

Paul, by the way, never says that Jesus declared himself to be divine.

What we think of as the twenty-seven books of "the" New Testament emerged out of these conflicts, and it was the side that won the debates over what to believe that decided which books were to be included in the canon of scripture.

In Galatians 4:14 Paul is not contrasting Christ with an angel; he is equating him with an angel.

The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while longer, making it possible for them still to praise him.

If one wants to insist that God inspired the very words of scripture, what would be the point if we don't have the very words of scripture?

How did Jesus understand and describe himself? Did he talk about himself as a divine being? I will argue that he did not.

This is the only verse in the entire Old Testament that uses the term "everlasting life.

Paul, and all the other authors of the New Testament, wrote in Greek).

The books we call the New Testament were not gathered together into one canon and considered scripture, finally and ultimately, until hundreds of years after the books themselves had first been produced.

What if the book you take as giving you God's words instead contains human words?

When the verses on women are removed, the passage flows neatly without a break. This too suggests that these verses were inserted into the passage later.

If God wanted us to have his words, why didn't he preserve his words?

Prophets (must) humbly accept the truth that they see through a glass darkly, that they know only in part. In other words, they make mistakes. Mature prophets urge everyone to who they prophesy to judge, test and compare with scripture everything they say. They are not offended when people are careful.

To know gritty truth about life straight from the pages of Scripture is part of the grace of God and allows us to live safely and effectively in a fallen world.

Meditation, prayer, covenants, ordinances, scripture study, empathy, compassion, and many different forms of the use of both conscience and imagination

the disparity between Americans' veneration of the Bible and their understanding of it, painting a picture of a nation that believes God has spoken in scripture but can't be bothered to listen to what God has to say.

Bethany. "That's biblical. In the Holy Land. It means 'house with an answer.

There is no greater abuse of the Bible than to proclaim in God's name what God is not saying.

The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.