Quotes About Old Testament

Compared with the Old Testament's psychotic delinquent, the deist God of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment is an altogether grander being:

El Dios del Viejo Testamento; se puede argumentar, es el carácter más desagradable en toda ficción: celoso y orgulloso de serlo; cerrado de mente, injusto, severo y obsesionado con el control; vengativo, un limpiador étnico sediento de sangre, un misógino, homofóbo, racista, infanticida, genocida, filicida, productor de pestilencias, megalomaníaco, sadomasoquista, caprichoso, y un matón malevolente.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can become desensitized to their horror.

As a concerned American colleague writes to me: 'Europeans need to know there is a traveling theo-freak show which actually advocates reinstatement of Old Testament law - killing of homosexuals etc. - and the right to hold office, or even to vote, for Christians only. Middle class crowds cheer tot his rhetoric. If secularists are not vigilant, Dominionists and Reconstructionists will soon be mainstream in a true American theocracy.

In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There's a special punishment Christians would suggest.

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

The violence described in the Old Testament was endemic to the ancient Near East and remains endemic to much of the world today. Although our refined Western sensibilities recoil from these violent passages, in fact the Old Testament is to be credited for presenting the human condition in all its starkness

So we have textual critics who believe desperately in the 44 Alexandrian manuscripts (against more than 5,000 copies favoring the Textus Receptus). They use these to translate all modern New Testaments. But these Alexandrian manuscripts also include the Septuagint Old Testament (with the Apocrypha). They have fallen for a trap.

T]he Old Testament, [...] if considered as a general rule of conduct, would lead to consequences destructive of all principles of humanity and morality.

JEREMIAH IS A well-known prophet in the Old Testament. There are at least sixty-two prophecies given in his writings. The book of Jeremiah has almost twenty-two thousand words, making it somewhat longer than Isaiah, and making it the second longest book in the Old Testament (only Psalms is longer).

THE BOOK OF Malachi was given about 430 BC (see Bible Dictionary, under "Malachi"). It is the last book of the Old Testament. After Malachi, there is about a 430 year gap in the Bible, until the New Testament.

Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

God appeared to His people in the Old Testament and dwelt with His people in the New - and now abides in us by His Spirit.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all.

One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.

Angels are spirit beings who are mentioned more than 250 times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible.

The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

The Old Testament is actually pretty raunchy. You might enjoy it.