quotes about New Testament
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Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.
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The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.
-- Frederic G. KenyonSource : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VIII, The Age Of Discoveries, p. 87, 1949.
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In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.
-- G. C. Berkouwer -
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?
-- George Eliot -
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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
-- J. I. Packer -
The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.
-- James DenneySource : James Denney (1903). “The atonement and the modern mind”
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You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
-- John Jay Chapman -
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
-- Josh McDowell -
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As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own.
-- K.P. Yohannan -
In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.
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So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
-- Paul Ricoeur -
The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
-- Philip SchaffSource : Philip Schaff (2013). “Church History”, p.461, Lulu Press, Inc
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There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'
-- Ray Charles -
The New Testament is not a historical document.
-- Reza Aslan -
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
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The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.
-- Thomas Guthrie -
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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
-- Thomas Paine -
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
-- William Barclay -
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
-- William Jennings Bryan -
It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.
-- Dean Alford -
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My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.
-- Frank Moore CrossSource : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
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All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In short, the Gospels help archaeologists know where to dig and they help archaeologists understand what they unearth. The 2nd-century Gospels and Gospel-like writings rarely exhibit verisimilitude, so archaeologists rarely appeal to them.
-- Craig A. EvansSource : Source: www.biblegateway.com