Quote by Michael S. Heiser Download Open image ““All of what preceded is the unknown (to us) backdrop to some familiar episodes in the Gospels.”” — Michael S. Heiser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The gospel is unknown not from want of explanation but from absence of personal revelation. This the Holy Spirit is ready to give to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“For a long time I’d been fed on the wheat of The Imitation. It was the only book which did me any good, as… — John Beevers Copy Share Image
“Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.” — Dave Harvey Copy Share Image
“As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“When you place the four emerging “canonical” gospels alongside the Jesus documents that others had written, again and again it appears that the canonical… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
“Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is… — Jerome Strong Copy Share Image
“[The gospels] are not merely antiquarian documents telling a strange story about a powerful but now long-gone moment of history. They are the moment… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according to the… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How would an… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writers were wrong… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture than the… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our world with… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
If you don't have the worldview of the people who produced the Bible - under inspiration no less, - you can't understand what they… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
The powers of darkness are still part of the spiritual world - they don't become something else when they rebel against God. Disembodied believers… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to think we… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Ruling the way God wants you to rule means fostering the ordered relationships he desires, not because he is a killjoy, but because that… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
God doesn't save us to perpetuate a particular Christian sub-culture. He saves us to advance a supernatural kingdom that is not of this world. — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image