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(T)he word of God is living and powerful,
and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
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"Suppose
a nation in
some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and
every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there
contained!
Every member would be obliged in conscience to temperance, frugality
and
industry; to justice, kindness and charity towards his fellow men; and
to piety, love and reverence toward Almighty God."
John Adams
"Someone
quoting the hackneyed sarcasm
that "between Protestantism and Romanism there is but a paper wall,"
the
reply was, "True, but the whole Bible is printed on it."
Paul
Bonchard
"The
Fanaticism which discards the
Scripture, under the pretence of resorting to immediate revelations is
subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast
extravagantly
of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they
may
make room for their own falsehoods."
John
Calvin
"A dog barks
when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's
truth
is attacked and yet would remain silent...."
John Calvin
"Compare
Scripture with Scripture.
False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves."
William
Gurnall
"The
authority of Scripture is greater
than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason."
Martin
Luther
"I
study my Bible as I gather apples.
First, I shake the whole tree that the ripest might fall. Then I shake
each limb, and when I have shaken each limb, I shake each branch and
every
twig. Then I look under every leaf."
Martin
Luther
"For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the
Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these
branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant."
Martin Luther
"Well
knows
he who
uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge
thrives by exercise, as
well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is
compar'd in Scripture to a
streaming fountain; if her water flow not in a perpetual progression,
they sick'n into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition."
John
Milton
"British
sportsman Charles Caleb Colton
(1780-1832) wrote, 'The three great apostles of practical atheism that
make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching,
are
health, wealth, and power.' America as a whole, and many Americans
individually,
had them all in 2000. If we had read the Bible more, we could have been
reassured by Horace Greeley's statement that 'It is impossible to
enslave
mentally and socially a Bible-reading people.' But even though 92
percent
of American households own at least one Bible and the average household
owns three, a Gallup survey showed that fewer than half of Americans
knew
the name of the Bible's first book."
Marvin
Olasky
"God
the Father is the giver of Holy
Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the
Spirit
is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture."
J.
I. Packer
"Because
the Bible is a command
word,
it is not designed nor does it seek to satisfy our curiosity, but
rather
to declare God's purpose and law, and to command our faith in and
obdience
thereto. The command word of a sovereign God can only be an infallible
word, and a law word. The Bible does not seek a rational man's assent,
because this rational man is a myth. It speaks to a fallen and depraved
man whose need is the word of life, and the way of life, Jesus Christ,
and the law of that life and person."
R.J
Rushdoony, Systematic Theology,
Vol. 1, p. 25. C
"Most
people are bothered by those passages in scriptures which they cannot
understand.
But for me, I always notice that the passages in scripture which
trouble
me the most are those that I do understand."
Mark
Twain
"...[T]he
Scriptures...furnish
the best principles of civil liberty, and the most effectual support of
republican government."
Noah Webster
"The
moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture
ought to
form the basis of
all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evil men
suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war,
proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts
contained in the Bible."
Noah
Webster
"This
Bible is for the
government of the people, by the people, and for the people."
John Wycliffe, on his
English translation of the Bible
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