Authority Quote by Craig Blomberg

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times,…

— Maria Monk

“Moreover, his view was precisely the one that many English Protestants feared would result from a careful analysis of the New Testament text, namely…

— Bart D. Ehrman

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries.…

— Elaine Pagels

I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters.…

— George Washington

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

— Dwight Longenecker

“The question of “canon and creed,” which underlies quite a bit of this book, has become quite urgent and controversial and needs to be…

— N.T. Wright

“What we think of as the twenty-seven books of “the” New Testament emerged out of these conflicts, and it was the side that won…

— Bart D. Ehrman

I think that the authority of Scripture must be accepted by Catholics and Protestants, and that if our doctrinal judgments are not measured by…

— Matthew Levering

“essential Christian beliefs are not affected by textual variants in the manuscript tradition of the New Testament.”

— Craig Blomberg

“Those who would argue for the infallibility or the inerrancy of scripture logically should also claim the same infallibility for the churches in the…

— Lee M. McDonald

The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of…

— F. F. Bruce

“Thomas Merton said it was actually dangerous to put the Scriptures in the hands of people whose inner self is not yet sufficiently awakened…

— Richard Rohr