Quotes about Interpretation

What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

If in reading the Bible you find justification for abusing, humiliating, disgracing, harming, or hurting, especially when it makes you feel better about yourself, you are absolutely wrong.

Preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad.

Many Christians are raised believing that to be true to God's Word means to accept that the universe, Earth, and life were created in six 24-hour days, only a few thousand years ago. Most people lack the theological and scientific tools to think through the implications of this teaching.