To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

If you take the cruel passages, the verses that inculcate eternal hatred, verses that writhe and hiss like serpents, you can make a creed that would shock the heart of a hyena. It may be that no book contains better passages than the New Testament, but certainly no book contains worse. Below the blossom of […]

Did these words come from the heart of love? — “When the Lord thy God shall drive them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, or show mercy unto them.” “I will heap mischief upon them. I will send mine arrows upon them; they shall […]

It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind; and yet among them is not found Thou shalt believe The Bible.

It (The Bible) has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge.

The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

Calvin was as near like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted.

Nearly all of the mistranslations have been made to help out the text. It would be much worse, much more contradictory had it been correctly translated. Nearly all of the mistakes have been made for the purpose of harmony.

The inspired Bible has been and is the greatest curse of Christendom, and will so remain as long as it is held to be inspired.

Hundreds and hundreds of commentators have obscured and darkened the meaning of the plainest texts, spiritualized dates, names, numbers and even genealogies. They have degraded the poetic, changed parables to history, and imagery to stupid and impossible facts. They have wrestled with rhapsody and prophecy, with visions and dreams, with illusions and delusions, with myths […]