Legitimacy Quote by Elaine Pagels

“Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already…

— Caroline Abbott

“Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?”…

— The Lockman Foundation

“It therefore provides a hermeneutical reference point for interpreting all his sayings, including the other Gospel statements from him about divorce and remarriage.”

— Rubel Shelly

“Consider the professing Christians in Europe that either endorsed or stood in silent or fearful indifference to the systematic annihilation of the Jews in…

— Dalton Lifsey

A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the…

— Israel Shenker

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get…

— Samuel Butler

“Jesus—for example, his categorical rejection of divorce, or his statement that “if anyone does not hate his own father and mother and wife and…

— Elaine Pagels

“When his culture considered women irrational and the private property of men, Jesus educated women and counted them among his closest friends.c When the…

— Dale Fincher

“Are you able—theologically, personally, and resource-wise—to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage?”

— John Piper

Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the…

— F. F. Bruce

“Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by erasing, as…

— Reza Aslan

“The Jewish Question? Thats a hell of a thing to ask!”

— Adolf Hitler