“The truth is that in all probability he (Jesus) never existed, but was created by the Jewish authors of the New Testament… — Christine M. Johns Copy Share Image
“There are over 100 Avestan words in the Bible, both in the Old and New Testaments, and Avestan is the sacred language… — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“THE VIEW THAT THE earliest Christians understood Jesus to have become the Son of God at his resurrection is not revolutionary among… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Discovering the Jewishness of Jesus and of the Early Jesus movement is a crucial step in the continual process of accurate interpretation… — Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg Copy Share Image
It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book… — Alexander Whyte Copy Share Image
In both the Holy Land of the New Testament and the promised land of the Book of Mormon, [our Savior] spent considerable… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
“The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“During the late Victorian period, one English woman in Hampshire who suffered from fits reportedly ate an entire New Testament in an… — Martyn Lyons Copy Share Image
“when Jesus tells His followers not to resist evil people, He uses a word that suggests a violent resistance. In fact, New… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
“With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Most of us would find Christians truly cast in the New Testament mold fairly obnoxious: civically reprobate, ideologically unsound, economically destructive, politically… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“For the most part we’ve dumbed-down New Testament Christianity and accepted our reality as theology rather than biblical theology as our reality.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It has always been difficult for Jews to take Christians serious, mostly because Christians lack the fundamentals that religious Jews learn in… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“Most Christians believe that Jesus IS God, that Jesus is the same jealous and angry God that abhorred homosexuals and condemned them… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than the fact… — Martyn Copy Share Image
“The catch is that for most people the New Testament is taken as proof for the conventional picture of Christian origins, and… — Burton L. Mack Copy Share Image
There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
“If God had wanted somebody with St. Francis's consistently winning personality for the job in the New Testament, he'd've picked him, you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The curse of life The story of Man’s10 abrupt expulsion from Eden – be it fiction, metaphor or literal fact – has… — Lynn Picknett Copy Share Image
“Jesus confronted many of the important issues of His time. He went into the temple, taught the New Testament message, and took… — Zechariah Barrett Copy Share Image
“Simply stated, it is flat-out wrong to say God does not put His laws into our hearts as believers and that commandments… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
“Normally when Christians go to church, they do not have to prepare to contribute anything other than some money for the tithing… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
“Judges is the best book in the Old Testament for the understanding of renewal and revival, while Acts is the best place… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
Christian: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“The absolutely highest stage of intercourse with God is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament Church, when man’s… — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after… — William F. Albright Copy Share Image
“The New Testament is ubiquitously clear: don’t retaliate with evil for evil; do good to those who hate you; embrace your enemy… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
The New Testament states that man cannot serve two masters. He must choose one -God, and not the other - money. For… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Paul from the New Testament, he has a great soliloquy about love, where he's basically saying, if I've figured out… — Moby Copy Share Image
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“There exists hardly any other New Testament text that is more unambiguous and firm in Jesus’ mission on earth and his divine… — Peter Schäfer Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies.… — Robert Jeffress 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
“[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
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image