JESUS
CHRIST-BIBLE
If Jesus knew
that Scripture contained human error yet never made this fact known to His
followers, misleading them rather by His insistently positive attitude toward
it, He can hardly qualify as a great moral teacher and the incarnate God of
truth.
Hermeneutics, Baker Books, 1981, p. 37.
We are to
believe and follow Christ in all things, including His words about Scripture.
And this means that Scripture is to be for us what it was to Him: the unique,
authoritative, and inerrant Word of God, and not merely a human testimony to
Christ, however carefully guided and preserved by God. If the Bible is less
than this to us, we are not fully Christ's disciples.
James Montgomery Boice
The Preacher and God’s Word.
It is beyond
doubt that Jesus highly esteemed the Old Testament and constantly submitted to
it as to an authoritative revelation. He taught that the Scriptures bore a
witness to him, just as he bore a witness to them. Because they are the
words of God, Jesus assumed their complete reliability, in whole and to the
smallest part.
James Montgomery Boice
Taken from "Foundations of the
Christian Faith-Book I" by James Montgomery Boice, page 45.
(c)1986 InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the USA,
Revised edition. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400,
Downers Grove, IL 60515. www.ivpress.com
http://www.gospelcom.net/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=991.
The Lord Jesus regarded the Old Testament as a trustworthy,
authoritative, unerring guide in our quest for enduring happiness. Therefore we
who submit to the authority of Christ will also want to submit to the authority
of the Book He esteemed so highly.
John Piper
Desiring God, 1996, p. 275, Used by
Permission, www.desiringGod.org.
We find
Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the
Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is
explained, and in Revelation He is expected.
Alistair Begg
Preaching for God’s Glory, Crossway,
1999, p. 36.
Once we truly grasp the message of the New
Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing
Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every
event and narrative.
Michael Horton
As the
prophesied Messiah, Jesus Christ is the central theme of Scripture. The Old
Testament looked ahead to Him; the New Testament looks back to His first coming
and on to His second. Canonical Scripture is the divinely inspired and
therefore normative witness to Christ. No hermeneutic, therefore, of which the
historical Christ is not the focal point is acceptable. Holy Scripture must be
treated as what it essentially is – the witness of the Father to the incarnate
Son.
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
Exposition: Authority: Christ and the Bible.
The Bible was
the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but
to decide the point at issue.
Leon Morris
It has been
noted that every passage of Scripture – whether it’s in the Old or New Testament
– either predicts, prepares for, reflects, or results from the work of
Christ.
C.J. Mahaney
The Cross Centered Life, 2002, Sovereign
Grace Ministries, p. 69. Used by
permission of Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
Excerpts may not be reproduced without prior written consent of
Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
We conclude
that in His use of the Old Testament Jesus stood alone among His Jewish
contemporaries, and that not because He took unusual liberties with the text (He
was in general usually faithful to its intended meaning), but because He
believed that in Him it found its fulfillment.
R.T. France
Jesus and the Old Testament, Regent, 1998, p.
201.
Jesus
himself clearly believed in the inspiration and authority of Scripture. Being a
disciple of Jesus entails not only doing what Jesus did but also believing what
Jesus believed. It is impossible to accept the authority of Christ without also
accepting the authority of Scripture. To believe and receive Jesus as Lord and
Savior is to believe and receive what He taught about Scripture.
Sam Storms
Special Revelation I, November 8, 2006, www.enjoyinggodministries.com.
Used by Permission.
The chief
reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that
Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
John Stott
The Bible is
the portrait of Jesus Christ.
John Stott
The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations,
ed. Mark Water, 2000, Baker, p. 116.
All of
Scripture is both from and about Jesus Christ. The Old Testament predicted and
prepared for His incarnation. The gospels tell the history of His earthly
ministry, and Acts the history of His church in its early years. The epistles
are commentaries of His message and work, and the book of Revelation is the
final testimony of His reigning and imminent return. What Jesus said of the Old
Testament is even truer, if this were possible, of the New: “You search the
Scriptures…and it is these that bear witness of Me”
(Jn. 5:39).
John MacArthur
1 Corinthians, Moody, 1984, p. 81.
Jesus
endorsed the inspiration of the Old Testament, not only as “full” or “plenary,”
but even “literal” in the sense that the very letters of the words were
inspired (see Matthew 5:17-18).
Edmund Clowney
Tabletalk, p. 10, June 2004, Ligonier
Ministries, Used by Permission.
Christ is
the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament,
valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is
their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great
manifestation of God is made.
Phillips Brooks
The Bible is
the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin Luther
Remove Christ
from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.
Martin Luther
There
is one key which will open the Book to you and reveal its golden treasures.
That key is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Foundation, the Center, and the
Mainspring of all Divine Truth. This is what He said, “Search the Scriptures;
for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me.” If we would avoid error in interpreting and applying
the Scriptures, we must understand that everything in the Bible speaks of and
relates to Christ. Divorce any doctrine from Christ
and that doctrine becomes heresy. Divorce any precept from Christ and that
precept becomes self-righteous legality.
Don Fortner
What is the Key to Understanding the Bible? Used by Permission.
To Christ the
Bible is true, authoritative, inspired, to Him the God of the Bible is the
living God, and the teaching of the Bible is the teaching of the living God. To
Him what the Scripture says, God says.
John Wenham
Take away the
cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
J.C. Ryle
The Cross: A Call to the Fundamentals of
Religion.