Quotes on Bible - I was glad I didn't have testicles
“I
was glad I didn't have testicles. They sounded like intestines only on the
outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being
able to go to church. Horrid.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Faith
always delivers a glorious ending to every test”
―
Vince Baker, Faith Secrets: Learn How To Please God With Your Faith
“If
you have Faith, you will be having a good time while everybody else is stressed
out”
―
Vince Baker, Faith Secrets: Learn How To Please God With Your Faith
“Unbelief
is thinking, feeling, speaking, and believing you don’t have something that God
said you have”
―
Vince Baker, Faith Secrets: Learn How To Please God With Your Faith
“Faith
will produce miracles, but miracles will never produce Faith; only the Word of
God produces Faith in us”
―
Vince Baker, Faith Secrets: Learn How To Please God With Your Faith
“God
will make a legend out of anyone with strong FAITH in God”
―
Vince Baker, Faith Secrets: Learn How To Please God With Your Faith
“Faith
is looking for Jesus, and Jesus is looking for FAITH”
―
Vince Baker, Faith Secrets: Learn How To Please God With Your Faith
“Faith
not only needs a challenge but thrives when challenged”
―
Vince Baker, Faith Secrets: Learn How To Please God With Your Faith
“Faith
is something unique, and not everyone has it”
―
Vince Baker, Faith Secrets: Learn How To Please God With Your Faith
“The
more Faith you have, the more God can use you”
―
Vince Baker, Faith Secrets: Learn How To Please God With Your Faith
“The
Word of God is the will of God.”
―
Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille
“If
you're going to live with confidence, you've got to life with the Word.”
―
Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille
“The
Word produces results; all else produces consequences.”
―
Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille
“You
have the full proof of the rewards, the return, eternal life-- all of that--
every time you speak in tongues.”
―
Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille
“—2
Corinthians 5:18— Paul says he’s been given the ministry of reconciling man to
God. Didn’t Jesus do that in his ministry? Back in chapter 3—here —Paul says
that God has qualified him to be the dispenser of his new covenant, but he
doesn’t have a word to say about Jesus dispensing that covenant. And then he
goes on to talk about the splendor of God’s work in sending the Spirit to
inspire missionaries like himself. But where is the splendor of Jesus’ life and
ministry? Wasn’t his work at least as important as Paul’s? Does Paul think God
placed greater importance on his work than on Jesus’ work?
“I
thought Paul was always talking about how humble he was.”
I
pointed to my next passage: 2 Corinthians 6:2. “Well, how’s this for humility?
Paul quotes Isaiah: ‘In the time of my favor I heard you, in the day of
salvation I helped you.’ This is supposed to be God promising salvation. But
when does this promise come to fulfillment? Was it in Jesus’ life and death?
No. Paul points to his own ministry and says, ‘I tell you, now is the time of
God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.’!”
―
Earl Doherty, The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ?
Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus
“The
Gospel of Mark has some major shortcomings: It contains no birth narrative; it
implies that Jesus, a repentant sinner, became the Son of God only at his
baptism; it recounts no resurrection appearances; and it ends with the very
unsatisfactory notion that the women who found the Empty Tomb were too afraid
to speak to anyone about it. Moreover, Mark includes very little of Jesus'
teachings; worse yet, (from Matthew's point of view) he even misunderstood
totally the purpose of Jesus' use of parables. Indeed, by the last two decades
of the first century, Mark's theology seemed already old-fashioned and even
slightly suggestive of heresy. So, working apparently without knowledge of each
other, within perhaps twenty or thirty years after Mark, two authors (or
Christian groups), now known to us as "Matthew" and "Luke"
(and even a third, in the view of some-"John') set about rewriting and
correcting the first unsatisfactory Gospel.”
―
Alan Dundes University of California, Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as
Folklore
“Scholars
had generally concluded that in all but the Supper scene, Paul was not quoting
sayings of Jesus from his ministry. Rather, he was engaged in a practice common
throughout early Christian preaching. Paul and his fellow charismatic
missionaries of the Christ were relaying directives and revelations which they
believed they had received directly from heaven, through inspiration, through
visions and interpreting glossalalia (speaking in tongues), or simply through a
study of scripture. [...] Others admitted that Paul had no sense of Jesus as an
ethical teacher, but saw himself as the mouthpiece for a Christ in heaven who
operated on earth in the present time of faith, through God’s Spirit. The
footnote pointed to a couple of passages by way of illustration. One of these
was 1 Corinthians 14:36-38: ‘Did the word of God originate with you? Are you
the only ones it has reached? If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or
spiritual, he should acknowledge that what I am writing is also done by the
Lord’s word.” [...]
Paul’s
world seemed to be one of inspiration and revelation directly from God—and a
competitive one at that. Once again, the atmosphere created by the early
documents, by the voices of those who had been the heart and soul of the
apostolic generation, was curiously out of sync with the picture crafted by the
later evangelists.”
―
Earl Doherty, The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ?
Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus
“Self-deception
is cured by the gospel...”
―
Dan O. Via, Self-Deception and Wholeness in Paul and Matthew
“It
is not only heretical Christians who interpret Jesus' crucifixion as divine
deception.”
―
Austin Busch, Risen Indeed? Resurrection and Doubt in the Gospel of Mark
“Alisha
was now sitting in a shabby armchair with her face buried in a tissue. ‘It’s
when someone is kind,’ she whispered, ‘You can keep going until someone is
kind.”
―
Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear
and kindness
