Quotes about Human

As Jesus, the Word, is of divine origin as well as a thoroughly human figure of first-century Palestine, so is the Bible of ultimately divine origin yet also thoroughly a product of its time.

The Adam story, then, is not simply about the past. It's about Israel's present brought into the past—even as far past as the beginning of the human drama itself.

Two great critiques of modernity by biblical scholars are Walter Brueggemann's Texts Under Negotiation and Walter Wink's The Bible in Human Transformation.

as Christ is both God and human, so is the Bible.

Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that what we say will never say it all.

We have every reason today to think differently about the universe and our place in it. This doesn't disprove God, but it does challenge our thinking. For people of faith, bringing the ancient Bible and our lives together can be stressful and unnerving—which is a problem if faith and correct thinking are deemed inseparable. "What does it mean to be human?" does not have as clear a biblical answer as it once had.

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.