BIBLE-CRITICIZED
He that reads
his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault
with him.
Defend the
Bible? I would as soon defend a lion!
The battle
between the Seed of the woman and the Seed of the Serpent began with these
words: 'Did God really say?' From that day forward, the Word of God has been
attacked, maligned, distorted and suppressed. The assault comes both from
inside and outside the church, as those outside claim that Scripture is not the
Word of God and those inside fail to handle the Word rightly
Author Unknown
Men do not
reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them.
Author Unknown
Is it easy to
convince someone that the Bible is the Word of God on the basis of its unity,
its scientific, historical accuracy, its miracles, its
archaeological evidence? I haven't found that to be the case. In a special
series spread over a three-week period I presented such data at a private
college in California. I felt the proof was overwhelming and not one person
became a believer. Why doesn't it convince all unbelievers when it's so
convincing to us? Paul said it when he wrote, "The man without the Spirit
does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are
foolishness to him and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually
discerned" (1 Cor. 2:14). Only when
the Holy Spirit does His regenerating work, only as He opens the mind, tears
off the scales of blindness, gives life where there is death and plants the marvelous
understanding of the revelation of God, only then do people come to believe and
trust in the Bible. The reason I know the Bible is true is that the Spirit of
God has convinced me of it.
John MacArthur
Precisely
because it is so powerful, the Bible has always had its enemies. Unbelievers
challenge its credibility. Skeptics question its accuracy. Moral revisionists
depreciate its precepts. Religious liberals dispute its supernatural character.
Cultists twist its meaning.
John MacArthur
Bible-Believing
Doubters from Our Sufficiency in Christ, 1991, Crossway Books, a division of
Good News Publishers, Wheaton Illinois 60187, www.crosswaybooks.org. p. 117.
Every type of
destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art,
human cunning, human force and human brutality could bring to bear against a
book has been brought to bear against this Book, and yet the Bible stands
absolutely unshaken today. At times almost all the wise and great of the earth
have been pitted against the Bible, and only an obscure few for it. Yet it has
stood.
R.A. Torrey
Isn’t it
amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet
so few have studied it?
R.C. Sproul
Men think
God’s laws too many and too strict, and yet make more of their own, and are
precise for keeping them.
Richard
Baxter
Funny how we
believe what the newspaper says, but question what the Bible says.
Author
Unknown
A thousand
times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, a funeral procession
formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow
the corpse never stays put.
Author Unknown
Be very sure
of this – people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They
understand it too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior;
they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to
judgment. They try to believe it is false and useless, because they don't like
to believe it is true.
Thoughts for Young Men