The Bible was given to us to tell us how we can get to heaven, not to tell us how the heavens work.
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Living Creature
“The Bible is no mere book, but a living creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Best Book
“The new Testament is the very best book that ever was or will be known in the world.”
Charles Dickens
God’s Promises
“O man, I beseech you, do not treat God’s promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but believe them and the use them.”
C.H. Spurgeon
Translating The Bible
“I felt rather like a electrician re-wiring an ancient house without being able to turn of the mains.”
J.B. Phillips writing about his experience when translating the new Testament.
Passages That Trouble
“Most people are troubled by those passages of Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I have always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand.”
Mark Twain
What If God Took The Bible Away?
One morning in the 1620s, in a little village church, a preacher named John Rogers was preaching on the subject of the Bible in the Christian’s life. He allowed himself some pulpit dramatics. First, he acted the part of God telling the congregation: “Well, I have trusted you so long with my Bible; you have slighted it; it lies in such and such houses all covered with dust andcobwebs; you care not to listen to it. Do you use my Bible so? Then you shall have my Bible no longer”. And he took the pulpit Bible away.
Then he knelt down and impersonated the people crying to God: “Lord, whatever thou dost to us, take not thy Bible from us; kill our children, burn our houses; destroy our goods but spare us thy Bible.”
Then he acted God again: “Say you so? Well, I will try you a while longer; and here is my Bible for you” (replacing it); “I will see how you will use it, whether you will love it more, observe it more, practice it more, live more according to it.”
At this the whole congregation dissolved in tears. What had happened? Rogers, under God, had touched a nerve, reminding them of their need to pay close attention to the Bible because reverence for God meant reverence for Scripture and serving God meant obeying Scripture.
Do we need to recapture some of the same attitude today? Surely disregarding the Bible is the greatest possible insult to its divine author.
Your Father Loves You by James Packer, Harold Shaw Publishers, 1986, Page April 24
Quoting the Bible indiscriminately
You can’t quote the Bible indiscriminately. I remember the story of two lawyers during a trial. One thought he would make a great impression on the jury by quoting from the Bible. So he said concerning his opponent’s client, “We have it on the highest authority that it has been said, ‘All that a man has will he give for his skin.’” But the other lawyer knew the Bible better. He said, “I am very much impressed by the fact that my distinguished colleague here regards as the highest authority the one who said,’All that a man has will he give for his skin.’ You will find that this saying come from the Book of Job, and the one who utters it is the devil. And that is whom he regards as the highest authority!”
Ray Stedman
Mutiny On The Bounty
One of the most dramatic examples of the Bible’s divine ability to transform men and women involved the famous mutiny on the “Bounty.” Following their rebellion against the notorious Captain Bligh, nine mutineers, along with the Tahatian men and women who accompanied them, found their way to Pitcairn Island, a tiny dot in the South Pacific only tow miles long and a mile wide. Ten years later, drink and fighting had left only one man alive–John Adans. Eleven women and 23 children made up the rest of the Island’s population. So far this is the familiar story made famous in the book and motion picture. But the rest of the story is even more remarkable. About this time, Adams came across the “Bounty’s” Bible in the bottom of an old chest. He began to read it, and the divine power of God’w Word reached into the heart of that hardened murderer on a tiny volcanic speck in the vast Pacific Ocean–and changed his life forever. The peace and love that Adams found in the Bible entirely replaced the old life of quarreling, brawling, and liquor. He began to teach the children from the Bible until every person on the island had experienced the same amazing change that he had found. Today, with a population of slightly less than 100, nearly every person on Pitcairn Island is a Christian.
From Signs of the Times, August, 1988, p. 5.
Braille Bible
A man in Kansas City was severely injured in an explosion. Evangelist Robert L. Sumner tells about him in his book THE WONDERS OF THE WORD OF GOD. The victim’s face was badly disfigured, and he lost his eyesight as well as both hands. He was just a new Christian, and one of his greatest disappointments was that he could no longer read the Bible. Then he heard about a lady in England who read braille with her lips. Hoping to do the same, he sent for some books of the Bible in braille. Much to his dismay, however, he discovered that the nerve endings in his lips had been destroyed by the explosion. One day, as he brought one of the braille pages to his lips, his tongue happened to touch a few of the raised characters and he could feel them. Like a flash he thought, I can read the Bible using my tongue. At the time Robert Sumner wrote his book, the man had “read” through the entire Bible four times.