There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The later writings of the Old Testament were composed in a degenerate type of Hebrew, often made more difficult by the introduction… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is clear that John saw himself, not only as one of the Christian prophets, but also as standing in the tradition… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing,… — Bono Copy Share Image
“In Genesis, and indeed for much of the Old Testament, the controlling image for death is exile. Adam and Eve were told… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“standing tall on his own hind legs in the cockpit of a fifty-foot black cigarette boat with a silver Uzi in one… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
“relationship between God and Old Testament Israel. In fact, as Jeremiah and other prophets pointed out, the catastrophe of 587 BC was… — Christopher J.H. Wright Copy Share Image
“For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain -- appreciated "the glad tidings of great joy." For the first… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“And unless we are postmodernists who could care less about the original authors’ intentions and meaning, let’s throw our Psalters in the… — David P. Murray Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
“The rock, when one came to think of it, was the utmost expression of human need; even mere feeling yearned for it;… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with… — Philippe Descola Copy Share Image
“Indictment for blasphemy: That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up… — Thomas Aikenhead Copy Share Image
“Some may object that to speak of election or predestination is to limit the kingdom of God to a few. Does it… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don’t… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old… — Terry Carr Copy Share Image
Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings,… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
“[Mani] deleted as interpolations all texts in the New Testament that assumed either the order and goodness of matter or the inspiration… — Henry Chadwick Copy Share Image
“How well do you know your Old Testament? That may seem like an unusual question to ask as you begin reading the… — Walk Thru the Bible Copy Share Image
“the Bible nowhere prohibits war: in the Old Testament we find war and even conquest positively commanded, and although war was raging… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“nowhere do Jesus or the apostles ever treat the Old Testament as human reflections on the divine. It is instead the voice… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person, who, after being crucified, dead, and buried,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across… — Stephen Bennett Copy Share Image
He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a… — Bruce Kent Copy Share Image
He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
“Today, many Christians don’t seem concerned about the Old Testament, but apparently God still has concern for His Law, all the way… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
“Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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