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.
Bible Quotes
I am glad now that I discovered God before I discovered the Bible.
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.
Few intelligent Christians can still hold to the idea that the Bible is an infallible Book, that it contains no linguistic errors, no historical discrepancies, no antiquated scientific assumptions, not even bad ethical standards. Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, […]
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 […]
I believe that the intention of holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary for salvation, such as neither science nor any other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit. But I do not think it necessary to believe that the same God who gave us our senses, […]
Tomorrow, if all literature was to be destroyed and it was left to me to retain one work only, I should save Job.
If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and – if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed. Down to modern times, no state has had a constitution in which the interests of the people are so largely taken into account; in which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn […]
