Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
If God is for us, who can be against us?
The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.
In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.
I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.
For the wages of sin is Death, but the gift of God is everlasting Life in Christ Jesus or LORD.
As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.
Finaly, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. -Ephesians 6:10-11
Be courageous and He shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord.
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's provably false, then the Bible is a lie, and if it's provably true, then the existence of God is proven and there's no room for faith.
Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.
The bible when taken metaphorically, provides us the truth about god; but when taken literally, the bible provides as the truth about man.
Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They are the protectors of Reason's house.
