One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He’s good, nobody […]
Bible Quotes
We are distressed because our churches are half empty; and many of them would be emptier if the Gospel were preached in them.
We are asked to justify these frightful passages, these infamous laws of war, because the Bible is the word of God. As a matter of fact, there never was, and there never can be, an argument even tending to prove the inspiration of any book whatever. In the absence of positive evidence, analogy and experience, […]
It ain’t necessarily so It ain’t necessarily so The t’ings dat yo’ li’ble To read in de Bible, It ain’t necessarily so… Dey tell all you chillun De Debble’s a villun But ’tain’t necessarily so. To get into Hebbben Don’t snap fo’ a sebben – Live clean! Don’ have no fault! Oh, I takes dat […]
You wonder how I can be wicked enough to attack the Bible. I will tell you: This book, the Bible, has persecuted, even unto death the wisest and the best. This book stayed and stopped the onward movement of the human race. This book poisoned the fountains of learning and misdirected the energies of man. […]
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.
If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
What we all need to do is return to the Bible afresh – not going to it to prove a point, but seeing what it says as the Holy Spirit opens our eyes.
