The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.
George Bernard Shawthe whole Bible is itself a missional phenomenon. The writings that now comprise our Bible are themselves the product of and witness to the ultimate mission of God. The Bible renders to us the story of God's mission through God's people in their engagement with God's world for the sake of the whole of God's creation. The Bible is the drama of this God of purpose engaged in the mission of achieving that purpose universally, embracing past, present and future, Israel and the nations, "life, the universe and everything," and with its centre, focus, climax, and completion in Jesus Christ. Mission is not just one of a list of things that the Bible happens to talk about, only a bit more urgently than some. Mission is, in that much-abused phrase, "what it's all about.
Christopher J.H. WrightDown through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed
Ruth Bell GrahamTag: bible
You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.
Dan BrownTag: bible
Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.
AnonymousTag: god bible jesus 3 psalm 63
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.
Dwight L. MoodyTag: bible
God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.
Ludwig FeuerbachTag: bible the-bible image in-his-image
Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.
Ruth Hurmence GreenTag: christianity religion atheism bible
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.
Ruth Hurmence GreenTag: christianity religion atheism bible
Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.
Ruth Hurmence GreenTag: family christianity atheism bible family-values
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