Quotes About Doctrine

The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.

We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

We believe in one God. We believe Muhammad is the Apostle of God.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

If your God doesn't look like Jesus, we don't worship the same God, sorry.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

Religion is god's population-control tool

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.