Richard Dawkins Quotes

The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it.

The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.

The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was.

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.

Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed itself in terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer. Any other teaching about the origin and makeup of the universe is so alien to the intentions of the Bible, which does not wish to teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated