Now What Say YOU?

Even more reliable than Plato & Aristotle: Check
Verbal Inspiration: Check
Plenary Inspiration: Check

And here's what some others are saying:

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. --Mark Twain

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it. -- Martin Luther

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture. --Brian McLaren

To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of Christ, is to turn the Bible into an entirely different book. This is how the Pharisees approached Scripture, as we can see clearly from the questions they asked Jesus. For the Pharisees, the Scriptures were a source of trivia for life's dilemmas. --Michael Horton

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious. --J.I. Packer

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages. --Corrie Ten Boom

Any number of people assume that the Bible says that Eve ate an apple, or that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Yet the Bible never says a word about whales or apples. In the former case it refers to a fish, which might imply any sort of sea-monster; and in the second, to the essential experience of fruition, or tasting the fruit of the tree, which is obviously more general and even more mystical . . . The things that look silly now are the first rationalistic explanations rather than the first religious or primitive outlines. If those original images had been left in their own natural mystery of dark fruition or dim monsters of the deep, nobody would have quarreled with them half so much . . . But it is unfair to turn round and blame the Bible because of all these legends and jokes and journalistic allusions, which are read into the Bible by people who have not read the Bible.--G. K. Chesterton

....So now what say YOU?

Comments

[ginny laky]

The Bible is God's relevant letters to me for the purpose of revealing,

instructing, guiding, warning, nourishing and sustaining me in my daily life here on planet earth.

I am just crazy about God's Word.

[Robert F]

To me the Bible is the epitome of how the world is balanced. Darkness/Light, right/wrong, joy/sorrow, love/hate, believers/non-believers, etc.

Without the negitives we would not know nor appriciate the positives. Without those who doubt and attack the Bible, believers would not study and strive to comprehend it to the same degree that we would otherwise.

Studying the Bible is what God wants us to do. It is alright to have questions about the Bible, because if you have an open mind and heart you will find more then the answers to your questions, you will find God.

God knew that there would always be non-believes; 1 cor 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

[Gilma Mills]

The word of God are so powerful. That even if you don't fully understand the Bible today. Whatever scripture you need to hear it will understood when it is time to understand it. There is a time for everything.--- Gilma Mills

[Gilma Mills]

The Word of God has a way of creeping into you .. How beautiful is that!

If I knew that the Bible had so many solutions I would have saved a tone of money on self help books.

[vanessa]

I don't think the way you think. The way you work isn't the way I work." God's Decree.

"For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think. Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don't go back until they've watered the earth, Doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry so will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed. They'll do the work I sent them to do, they'll complete the assignment I gave them.

"So you'll go out in joy, you'll be led into a whole and complete life." (Isaiah 55:10-12 MSG)

I say, "Who's gonna mess with that and risk not believing? I want a "whole and complete life." I tried to get one doing things my own way, and it didn't work. So, because God is merciful and kind enough to give me a road map, I am going to oblige Him and use it."

[john1943]

The Bible is the word of man and the Word of God. It is the word of man because it was written by men who are limited by time, place, language, culture and circumstance. It is their testimony. If we want to understand them, we, humans of the 21st century, must meet them where they are. It is the Word of God to people who believe. People of faith believe, not first of all in the Bible, but in God who reveals himself in the Bible and in the history of the people of Israel, and in his Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth.

[Esther]

Even though at times I feel like I have doubts about the validity of ALL of God's word, I need to remember, to pray, and to meditate on the fact that I have faith first... and now I'm seeking understanding. I think it will only be with the help of the Holy Spirit that I will come to believe in the whole Bible, not just the gospels.