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 […]
Bible Quotes
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.
According to the declaration of the Second Vatican Council, a faithful account of the actions and words of Jesus is to be found in the Gospels; but it is impossible to reconcile this with the existence in the text of contradictions, improbabilities, things which are materially impossible or statements which run contrary to firmly established […]
Thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book’s out side who ne’er look within.
If somebody claims that no rational person can take a book seriously which assumes that the world was created in six days and man in an afternoon, ask him if he can take Shakespeare seriously whose scientific knowledge would have sent a third-grader into peals of laughter. Finally this. If you look “at” a window, […]
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Armies of Bible scholars and theologians have for centuries found respected employment devising artful explanations of the Bible often not really meaning what it says.
What man has written, man may read, But God fills every root and seed, With cryptic words, to strangely set For mortal to decipher yet.
