Since Biblical Times, And Probably Before, The Wealthy Have Been Envied And Condemned.
Coming To The Bible Through Commentaries Is Much Like Looking At A Landscape Through Garret Windows, Over Which Generations Of Unmolested Spiders Have Spun Their Webs.
Sink The Bible To The Bottom Of The Ocean, And Man's Obligations To God Would Be Unchanged. He Would Have The Same Path To Tread, Only His Lamp And His Guide Would Be Gone; He Would Have The Same Voyage To Make, But His Chart And Compass Would Be Overboard!
Orthodox Judaism Is A Thicket Of Detailed Injunctions, Biblical Commandments Elaborated During Centuries Of Prohibited Proselytizing, Functioning To Limit Interaction With Outsiders. At The Opposite Extreme, Islam, Still The Most Rapidly Expanding Of Faiths, Demands Little Immediate Knowledge From Those Who Would Convert. The Convert Is Permitted To Enter And Then To Learn By Participation, Although There Are Plenty Of Detailed Regulations And Abstruse Theological Ideas To Be Pursued Later, And The Regulations Do Effectively Separate Believers From Nonbelievers.
The Bible Rose To The Place It Now Occupies Because It Deserved To Rise To That Place, And Not Because God Sent Anybody With A Box Of Tricks To Prove Its Divine Authority.
Energy, Like The Biblical Grain Of The Mustard-seed, Will Remove Mountains.
Noah Is The Battle Of Justice Versus Mercy. In Genesis It Says That Noah Was Righteous In His Times. You Think You Sort Of Know What Righteous Means, You Know, If You Listen To A Lot Of Bob Marley. According To All The Biblical Scholars We Talked To, Righteousness Is The Proper Balance Of Justice And Mercy. If You Think Of That, As A Parent, You Know That If You Have Too Much Justice And You're Too Strict, You Destroy A Child. If You Have Too Much Mercy, As A Parent, You Destroy A Child As Well. A Big Part Of This Movie Is Noah Finding Mercy For Man.
All The Biblical Miracles Will At Last Disappear With The Progress Of Science.
Saint Augustine ... Insisted That Scripture Taught Nothing But Charity. Whatever The Biblical Author May Have Intended, Any Passage That Seemed To Preach Hatred And Was Not Conducive To Love Must Be Interpreted Allegorically And Made To Speak Of Charity.
Christianity, If It Is To Triumph Over Pantheism, Must Absorb It. To Our Pusillanimous Eyes Jesus Would Have Borne The Marks Of A Hateful Pantheism, For He Confirmed The Biblical Phrase "ye Are Gods," And So Would St. Paul, Who Tells Us That We Are Of "the Race Of God." Our Century Wants A New Theology - That Is To Say, A More Profound Explanation Of The Nature Of Christ And Of The Light Which It Flashes Upon Heaven And Upon Humanity.
Christianity, If It Is To Triumph Over Pantheism, Must Absorb It. To Our Pusillanimous Eyes Jesus Would Have Borne The Marks Of A Hateful Pantheism, For He Confirmed The Biblical Phrase "ye Are Gods," And So Would St. Paul, Who Tells Us That We Are Of "the Race Of God." Our Century Wants A New Theology - That Is To Say, A More Profound Explanation Of The Nature Of Christ And Of The Light Which It Flashes Upon Heaven And Upon Humanity.
The Theories Of The Major Philosophers Of The 18th Century Secular Enlightenment Were Biblical And Theological In Spite Of Themselves.
