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.
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
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.