Stephen Bennett Quotes

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.

That's what we have with the Old Testament and the New Testament: good storytelling.

We were raised as Christians, and religion plays an important role for us.

I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.

I read the entire Old Testament and New Testament.

We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold—and we do firmly believe and simply confess—that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.

If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others.

The New Testament is not a historical document.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

I believe in the Bible, and I believe in Jesus. It's a big part of my life.

I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.

I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral compass.

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.

Would you take anybody's views on Christianity seriously if they hadn't read the New Testament? Of course you wouldn't. So I read the Koran.

I hate the Bible. I always did.