ON THE BIBLE

Jesus regularly read from the Old Testament

part of the Bible in the Synagogue..Mark1:21

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THE GOOD BOOK

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"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means."

~George Bernard Shaw~

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The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book."

~A. W. Tozer,~

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"It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit, and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him."

~C.S. Lewis~

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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbour is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

~Henry Ward Beecher ~

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My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

~John Wesley ~

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If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.

~Mahatma Gandhi~

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As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important. Despite our constant talk about the Lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality. We have misunderstood the concept of the Lordship of Christ over the whole of man and the whole of the universe and have not taken to us the riches that the Bible gives us for ourselves, for our lives, and for our culture.

~Francis Schaeffer~

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It (the Bible) sustains me As a belief… I'm the sort of character who's got to have an anchor. I want to be around immovable objects. I want to build my house on a rock, because even if the waters are not high around the house, I'm going to bring back a storm. I have that in me. So it's sort of underpinning for me.I don't read it as a historical book. I don't read it as, "Well, that's good advice." I let it speak to me in other ways. They call it the rhema. It's a hard word to translate from Greek, but it sort of means it changes in the moment you're in. It seems to do that for me…It's a plumb line for me. In the Scriptures, it is self-described as a clear pool that you can see yourself in, to see where you're at, if you're still enough.

~ Bono~