Quotes About Bible

Christianity declared that Jesus heralded a new Covenant that replaced Moses's, that the old laws were now obsolete, and that election to the status of Chosen People was now open to anyone who accepted Christ and the teachings of the Bible and the new scriptures.

Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. Pretty much pouring our hearts out like water.

We look back in time. "The Bible...looks forward from the beginning.

The Bible angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power.

when we understand that the Bible comes to us as a trust both from God and from the people of God. It is the record of holy encounters between people and God, encounters that have been reckoned to be decisive and compelling, and that have been preserved from generation

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.

language of the Bible is meant always to point us to a truth beyond the text, a meaning that transcends the particular and imperfectly understood context of the original writers, and our own prejudices and parochialisms that we bring to the text. Literalism is not part of the solution to this

They believe the "Bible to be God's written revelation to his people," and that "it records in human words what God desires." Their

How can one interpret a Bible "full of alien genealogies, barbaric practices, strange prophecies, and eccentric epistles"? While we

The Bible is silent about abortion, but the religious zeal of the protestors at abortion clinics is based upon what they believe to be the plain and clear meaning of Exodus 20:13, where in many English translations the familiar commandment says, "Thou shalt not kill.

La incapacidad de relativizar el sentido común cuando abordamos la Biblia tiene efectos perniciosos en la teología y, por ende, en la vida eclesial y en la evangelización.

Los pactos son promesas, y el Dios verdadero se manifiesta, o se nombra, mediante su capacidad de cumplir sus promesas. Toda la cuestión del nombre de Dios, como opuesto a cualquier otra fuerza espiritual, es lo que prácticamente forja el guión de la Biblia. Dado que las promesas tienen que ver con el futuro, la Biblia es escatológica por obligación. De esta manera, la Biblia aborda el tiempo de un modo que nos permite vivir con esperanza, fe y amor en medio de la historia.

Solomonís horses were imported from Egypt and from all the lands.