Biblical Context Quotes

Jesus did not become the 'GodKlingon' or the 'GodMartian'! Only descendants of Adam can be saved. God's Son remains the 'Godman' as our Savior.

Consider what the Lord said to Moses – and I think he was right.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

Moses should have said "Let my people go. Please."

You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

All of Scripture is for us but not all of Scripture is to us.

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

And the Lord said unto Samuel. Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.

God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.

"Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins. Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job.

After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

What would Jesus have done in precisely similar situations?

We read the whole Bible, cover to cover, over and over again... It wasn't that we read selective parts of the Bible. It was that we interpreted it in this very selective way.