If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we’re going?
Bible Quotes
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New – the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
I am a creature of a day. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God. I want to know one thing: the way to heaven. God himself has condescended to teach me the way. He has written it down in a book. Oh, give me that book! At any price give me […]
Isaiah is, upon the whole, a wild, disorderly writer, preserving in general no clear chain of perception in the arrangement of his ideas, and consequently producing no defined conclusions from them. It is the wildness of his style, the confusion of his ideas, and the ranting metaphors he employs, that have afforded so many opportunities […]
But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil. (Richard III)
I know some people use other versions (other than the KJV), but I call them “perversions.”
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Now, Sir, it is impossible for serious men, to whom God has given the divine gift of reason, and who employs that reason to reverence and adore the God that gave it, it is I say, impossible for such a man to put confidence in a book that abounds with fable and falsehood as the […]
