The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!
I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
Noah's wife, who said to him after 40 days and 40 nights, It's your turn to spread the papers on the floor! Never got a dinner!
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn't, like, cashing Social Security checks; he wasn't hanging out - he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work.
Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.
Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it.
The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.
Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.
I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.
Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.
Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.
You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.
Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.
We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.
