Eric Ludy Quotes

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

... common sense is very rare.

It's not the quantity of your decisions; it's the quality.

Your narrow and sectarian prejudices make war upon The Bible …. upon the Pentateuch, while facing the East with his head covered.]

It would be a good idea.

At Flushing [Long Island] as soon as the meeting was done, there stood up a priest's son and laid down three things that he would dispute, the first was the ordination of ministers, the second women's speaking, and the third that we held a new way of worship….I said it was like Christ's way of worship which he set up above 1,600 years ago, and was a new way of worship to him and his priests…as for women's speaking, such as the apostles did own I owned

Women can perform many duties which are useful in the church, but they were not called for priesthood. We are not to be blamed for this because this is not our teaching, it is the, Biblical teaching. If you can find one single example in the Bible, whether in the Old Testament or in the New Testament, we are ready to accept it. We are not against the words of God. We accept the words of God. But we cannot add new teachings.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

To read the Koran rationally is to accept that the Koran is open [to interpretation] and has many meanings. The tradition regards the Koran as one-dimensional and fixed. This approach is not rationalist. To be a rationalist is to accept that each era, with its [particular] methods and discoveries, presents its own reading of the Koran, and this is the way it will be until the end of days. To be a rationalist is to acknowledge that the orthodox approach is fundamentally wrong since it does not accept the multiplicity of readings

There must be no inventing or recounting to the people of new things … uncanonical and according to their own taste rather than the Holy Scriptures.

In recent years, those who claim to have inside knowledge of what the Creator wants us to think and do have been more common on the right than on the right..

... always an honest man, often a wise one, but sometimes ... absolutely out of his senses.

There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.

Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'

Common sense is often underrated.

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

Good men make good decisions.