#bible

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#argument #because #bible #cannot #does

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. ↗

— Rob Portman

#code #interesting #longer #nearly #nine

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

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Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#based #bible #concepts #findings #fit

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #bible #bunch #encounter #first

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#i #jewish #student #studied #time

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters. ↗

— Anita Diament

#characters #names #only #relationship #sacred

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world. ↗

— William Floyd

#bible #book #done #harm #more

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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