Astonishing Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same…

— Lysander Spooner

“The truth is that in all probability he (Jesus) never existed, but was created by the Jewish authors of the New Testament as a…

— Christine M. Johns

“At the time that the early Gospels were written, the Pharisees and the early Christians were competing for the hearts and minds of their…

— Phyllis Goldstein

The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human…

— Lesslie Newbigin

... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“We have taken Herodotus as an interesting specimen of what we have called the free intelligence of mankind. Now here we are dealing with…

— H.G. Wells

“I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the…

— Anonymous

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This…

— H. G. Wells

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think…

— Jim Caviezel

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent…

— Elaine Pagels

“The gospel is not just a story about Jesus; it is a transformative story because the gospel unleashes God’s saving power for humanity.”

— Matthew W. Bates

Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you…

— Rodney Stark