“The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after… — Philip W Comfort Copy Share Image
“Yet I returned to the central values of Christianity - sacrifice, redemption, forgiveness - because I found them so compelling. There is… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“At the end of the fifteenth century, the poet Thomas Hoccleve declared in The Regiment of Princes, “Allas, wher ys this worldes… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a… — Mark Galli 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
“Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all." (The… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“To believe in God is a good thing, a right thing. But when you reinforce your belief with words you take from… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“Many theologians believe the Gospel writers include miracle stories in order to prove that Jesus is divine. But miracles are not proof… — R. Alan Streett Copy Share Image
And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back… — Becky Fischer Copy Share Image
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corruption,… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Already in the Old Testament, God’s love for Israel had been compared to the marital bond (Isa 62:5; Jer 2–3; Ezek 16;… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
“Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we… — John Piper Copy Share Image
People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I'm an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every… — Jimmy Carter 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
“Ladd observes that dispensationalism’s fundamentally different hermeneutical presuppositions distinguish it from all other forms of Christianity: “Here is a basic watershed between… — Jonathan Menn Copy Share Image
“I celebrate my birthday in ways not seen this side of the Old Testament. I celebrate my life like the Dead Sea,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Some have said, “The miracles, signs, and wonders of the book of Acts were temporary. They served to authenticate the apostles until… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the… — Gordon Fee Copy Share Image
The Bible is a collection of writings by lots of different people written over maybe a thousand years, from a number of… — John Goldingay Copy Share Image
