Christianity - A Basic Guide to the Christianity of President Barack Obama

by Judeo-Christian Bible on Monday, 21 February 2011 at 20:22

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.

- Matthew 28:19-20

The Tradition of Christianity - A Basic Guide to the Christianity of President Barack Obama

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Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

- President Barack Obama, a Protestant Christian for over 20 years

Barack Obama, the first African-American President in a nation that was still practicing black slavery a mere 140 years ago, is one of the most inspiring occurrences in the 21st century and may well be a sign that the third millennium will turn out to be an era of peace and prosperity for all Americans, and for all God's children throughout the world. In many ways, his election as the most powerful leader in the world, indicates that the Christian doctrine of universal brotherhood has managed to emerge triumphant after a very scary, and completely evil, previous century that threatened the very foundations of Christianity. At the same time, a great many of Obama's public statements have been infused with the inspirational and moral certainty that originates with his faith in Christianity. Here are just a few highlights:

My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman’s sense of self, a young man’s sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.

- Senator Barack Obama

We believe in a country that rewards hard work and responsibility, a country where we look after one another, a country where we say, ‘I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, I'm not just thinking about myself.’

- President Barack Obama

The fact of the matter is that, regardless of Barack Obama's politics, some of which are in opposition to traditional Christian doctrines, he is still an authentic, genuine Christian believer who has been properly baptized by an ordained Christian minister. After this he did not fall, and he did not stray. Instead, he dutifully attended Christian Sabbath on a weekly basis for over 20 years before running for President. What follows is a basic guide to the Christianity of President Barack Obama. It has been organized in the following manner:

Part I. A Sampling of Quotes from Barack Obama

Part II. Quotes from Official News Reports about Obama's Christian Faith

Part III. The Factual Reality of President Obama's Christian Presidency

Part IV. America's Confusion and Misinformation about Obama's Christianity

Part V. The Opposition to, Versus the Acceptance of, Obama's Christianity

Part VI. The Astonishingly Misinformed Beliefs of Certain Americans

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Part I. A Sampling of Quotes from Barack Obama

As somebody who relies heavily on my Christian faith in my job, I understand the passions that religious faith can raise.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

(The story of Jesus' birth) that we are called to love each other as we love ourselves, that we are our brother's keeper and our sister's keeper, and our destinies are linked...It's a message that guides my Christian faith.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

(We can) see God in other people and do our best to help them find their, you know, their own grace...So that's what I strive to do...That's what I pray to do everyday. I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I found myself drawn - not just to work with the church but to be in the church...It was through this service that I was brought to Christ.

- President Barack Obama, University of Notre Dame (May 17, 2010)

It was because of these new-found understandings - that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking...that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized...But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side of Chicago, I felt God's spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

- Barack Obama (June 28, 2006)

There is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branch will not cease...The work ahead will not be easy, and there will be setbacks. There will be challenges along the way. But thanks to you, thanks to the great people of this great city, New Orleans is blossoming again.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I am a Christian by choice...I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead...Being my brothers' and sisters' keeper. Treating others as they would treat me. And I think also understanding that, you know, that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility that we all have to have as human beings.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I'm a Christian by choice. My family didn't-frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. And my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn't raise me in the church. So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead-being my brothers' and sisters' keeper, treating others as they would treat me....

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead: being my brother's and sister's keeper, treating others as they would treat me...I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

It's interesting listening to the girls, what they pray for...They'll talk about family and thanking God for blessing us, but they'll always add a little twist: 'I hope we have a great Thanksgiving, I can't wait to see the cousins...They used to pray for a dog, until we got a dog.

- President Barack Obama, commenting on the Obama family prayer before dinner

It means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us.

- First Lady Michelle Obama

I'd just sit in the back and I'd listen to the choir and I'd listen to the sermon...There were times that I would just start tearing up listening to the choir and share that sense of release.

- President Barack Obama (2008-2011)

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Part II. Quotes from Official News Reports about Obama's Christian Faith

Obama's Christian Rhetoric-

QUOTE- As president, Barack Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ in a number of high-profile public speeches - something his predecessor George W. Bush rarely did in such settings, even though Bush’s Christian faith was at the core of his political identity...Obama’s invocation of the Christian Messiah is more overt than Americans heard in the public rhetoric of Bush in his time in the White House - even though Bush’s victories were powered in part by evangelical voters....Still, it is ironic that Obama, who rode a wave of young, Internet-savvy and more secular voters to the White House, would more freely invoke the name of Jesus Christ than did Bush. -UNQUOTE

Obama's Christian Beliefs--

QUOTE- In openly personal terms, President Barack Obama on Tuesday honored the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, saying he draws inspiration from an eternal story of pain, suffering and redemption...Obama's comments provided a brief, uncommon opening into how he views his Christian faith. He told the religious leaders that their examples are followed by millions of people. He welcomed them warmly as "my brothers and sisters in Christ" and honored Christ as "our risen savior."...Obama has also held White House events honoring the Jewish and Muslim faiths. -UNQUOTE

Obama's Christian Family Prayer--

QUOTE- The first family says grace each night before dinner, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle told ABC News in an interview that aired Friday...The Obamas have frequently spoken about prayer since arriving in the White House. Last month, Michelle Obama told a nationally syndicated radio show that the Obamas can feel prayers that are said for them...In 2009, Barack Obama said that he had stepped up his praying since becoming president 'because I've got a lot of stuff on my plate, and I need guidance all the time.'...He told ABC News then that he starts each morning by reviewing a devotional he receives on his BlackBerry. -UNQUOT

Obama's Little Known Christian Faith--

QUOTE- A new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life indicates that the number of Americans who erroneously believe President Obama is a Muslim is growing...In March 2009, the percentage was 11 percent. Today, it's 18 percent...The percentage of those asserting that the president is a Christian -- which he is -- has gone down in that time, from 48% in March 2009 to 34% today...A plurality of Americans -- 43% -- say they don't know what religion the president is. -UNQUOTE

Obama's Daily Christian Readings

QUOTE- President Barack Obama is a great example of how technology and religion are symbiotic. Each morning, Obama reads a devotional on his BlackBerry....“I pray all the time now - because I’ve got a lot of stuff on my plate and I need guidance all the time,” he said with a laugh during an interview with ABC’s Nightline that was aired Thursday night...Obama said he receives his daily devotional from Joshua DuBois, his director of faith and neighborhood initiatives....“That’s how I start my morning. You know, he’s got a passage, scripture, in some cases quotes from other faiths to reflect on. This is something where you just hope that you are aligning your work with His purposes and that you’re attuned to the needs of the people you’re there to serve,” he said. -UNQUOTE

Obama's Tolerant Christian Understanding of Faith and Sin

QUOTE- "This is a country that is still predominantly Christian, but we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists" and others, he said, adding that "their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own, and that is part of what makes this country what it is."...Humans are "sinful" and "flawed" beings that make mistakes and "achieve salvation through the grace of God," the president continued....Obama responded that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare" in America, adding that families -- not the government -- "should be the ones making the decision."...Restrictions against late-term abortion are in place now, he said, adding that "people still argue and disagree about it. That's part of our Democratic tradition." -UNQUOTE

Obama's Christian Faith Denied and Defamed

QUOTE- Americans have some extreme views of President Obama, with a new controversial survey suggesting that 40 percent of adults believe he is a socialist, and about a quarter of survey participants thinking the president is a racist, anti-American and even doing things Hitler did...When broken out by political party, results showed some stark differences. For instance, the majority of Republicans believed the president is a Muslim and a socialist, while around 40 percent believe he is a racist, someone who resents American heritage and "wants terrorists to win."...Forty percent of Republicans, compared with just 15 percent of Democrats, think Wall Street pulls his strings. -UNQUOTE

Obama's Non-Muslim Past and Christian Present

QUOTE- Obama, however, claimed that his father, who he only knew as an infant, was an atheist. He assured that his time as President has only served to deepen his commitment to Christianity....Obama has repeatedly said that he is a Christian and prays regularly, but more Americans than ever have raised doubts over his beliefs. -UNQUOTE

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Part III. The Factual Reality of President Obama's Christian Presidency

- President Obama publically affirmed his Christian faith to a predominantly Muslim audience in Cairo, Egypt. He went to mention the famous Islamic legend of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed came together as one and prayed to God.

- Speaking to students at the University of Notre Dame, Barack Obama repeatedly described about his religious conversion to Christianity which occurred in Chicago working with the inner-city poor as a community activist.

- While discussing his economic policies in a speech at Georgetown Univeristy, President Obama deliberately invoked the Christian Gospel parable of building a house upon a foundation of either sand or solid rock to illustrate his political strategy.

- Even though he remains virulently opposed to nearly all of Obama liberal politics, Mr. Tony Perkins, who is president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian interest group, is on record praising the President's openly Christian faith. Commenting on Barack Obama's religious faith, He stated: 'I don't recall a single example of Bush ever saying Jesus or Christ...This is different...I applaud that. It gives people a sense of comfort.'

- Obama also managed to schedule an Easter prayer breakfast at the White House specifically for Christian pastors. During his opening remarks, he openly and specifically employed devout Christian rhetoric, even welcoming all the assembled guests as 'my brothers and sisters in Christ.'

- A growing number of different news organizations have been reluctantly forced to make note of President Obama's astonishing, and frequent, use of the term Jesus Christ, as well as other blatantly Christian terminology. One particular article even admitted the following: 'Obama’s invocation of the Christian Messiah is more overt than Americans heard in the public rhetoric of Bush in his time in the White House'.

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Part IV. America's Misinformed Confusion about Obama's Christianity

Did you know that...

1) Since becoming President, Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ by name in public far more often than George W. Bush ever did during his tenure?

2) The Obama family, including his wife Michelle and their two daughters, recite Christian grace and prayers every night before eating dinner?

3) Barack Obama begins each morning by reading and reflecting upon Christian Scriptures and Prayers with one of his Christian staff members?

4) The historical evidence shows that Obama was never really a Muslim believer, while his sincere and authentic conversion to Christianity later in life has been clearly documented and verified?

5) President Obama has read and studied Roman Catholic Saint Augustine, the Christian intellectual Graham Greene, and the famous Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr?

President Obama prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

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Part V. The Opposition to, Versus the Acceptance of, Obama's Christianity

Obama's Public Christian Witness

Opposition To: I don’t need to hear politicians tell me how religious they are...Obama in a very overt way does what Bush tended to do in a more covert way. (Rev. Barry Lynn, United for Separation of Church and State)

Acceptance Of: I don't recall a single example of Bush ever saying Jesus or Christ...This is different...I applaud that. It gives people a sense of comfort. (Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council)

Obama's Actual Christian Faith

Opposition To: Obama can call himself anything he likes, but there is a clear requirement for one to qualify as a Christian and Obama doesn't meet that requirement...Such people do have a label applied to them in Scripture. They are called 'false prophets'. (Cal Thomas)

Acceptance Of: Obama has accepted Jesus Christ. That’s what he says he has done. So I just have to believe that the president is what he has said. (Reverend Franklin Graham, Son of Billy Graham)

Obama's Christian Beliefs

Opposition To: The fact Senator Obama denies Jesus is the only way to be saved...calls into question whether he believes...It is time for Senator Obama to be held accountable for what he says he believes to examine if he really is a Christian. (Bill Keller)

Acceptance Of: The president says he’s a Christian. I take him at his word...I think the faith that most Americans are questioning is the President’s faith in the government to generate jobs. (Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell)

Obama's Christian Theology

Opposition To: I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology...He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter. (James Dobson, Focus on the Family)

Acceptance Of: He presents his Christianity as an important aspect of his identity but one he doesn’t want to foist upon anyone else, and he would rather risk downplaying it than offending somebody...This notion that we are our brothers’ keepers...is kind of a mantra for him.(Jeffrey Siker, Loyola Marymount University)

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Part VI. The Astonishingly Misinformed Beliefs of Certain Americans

Some Astonishing Facts about the Misinformed Beliefs of American Voters

+ Bill Keller, a Internet Televangelist, accused President Barack Obama on-air of being an 'Enemy of God'

+ 14 percent of Americans (24 percent of Republicans and 6 percent of Democrats) believe President Barack Obama may be the Antichrist.

+ A Pew Research poll in August (2010) revealed 'that one in five Americans falsely believe the president is a Muslim, more than thought so last year'.

+ In a poll by Newsweek, 12 percent of voters incorrectly believe he's Muslim; more than a quarter believe he was raised in a Muslim home.

+ A Time Magazine poll found that 24 percent of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, rather than a Christian.

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A List of Specific Beliefs of Certain Americans

38% - Believe Obama wants to abolish the right to bear arms

32% - Believe Obama is actually a Muslim in disguise

29% - Believe Obama intends to end U.S. independence and establish a single world government.

29% - Believe Obama has secretly violated the U.S. Constitution

27% - Believe Obama resent's America's heritage

27% - Believe Obama is the puppet of Wall Street bankers

25% - Believe Obama was not actually born on United States soil

25% - Believe Obama is the enemy of the U.S. Constitution

23% - Believe Obama is a racist

23% - Believe Obama is anti-American

23% - Believe Obama plans on staging a economic collapse of terrorist incident to seize control and declare Martial Law

20% - Believe Obama is doing the same thing Hitler did

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May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles.

A Last Important Quote-

And I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.

- President Barack Obama

Bible - The Best Quotes from Famous/Important People about the Bible

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

- John 1:1

- The Judeo-Christian Bible -

The Best Quotes from Famous and/or Important People about the Bible



The following collection of quotations were found throughout the internet on various websites, many of whom were related in some manner to the Judeo-Christian tradition. Here are just a few of some of the best quotes about the Bible ever known in the history of man:

All quotes have been set in accented letters for easier reading and reference-
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To read the Bible is to take a trip to a fair land where the spirit is strengthened & faith renewed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.

- Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Yes, I read the Bible- every God-damned day!

- George S. Patton (1885-1945)

The Bible contains more philosophy than all the libraries that I have ever seen, & such parts as I cannot reconcile with my little philosophy, I postpone for future investigation.

- John Adams (1735-1826)

The first & almost only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the World. So great is my veneration for the Bible, that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country & respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Saviour of the World is communicated to us through this book.

- Abraham Lincoln (1909-1865)



I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book that you can by reason, & the balance by faith, & you will live & die a better man. It is the best Book which God has given to man.

- Abraham Lincoln (1909-1865)

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Almost every man who has by his lifework added to the sum of human achievement...has based his lifework largely upon the teachings of the Bible.

- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the World who has deprived himself of a knowledge of the Bible.

- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals etc...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers & find illumination.

- Hebert Hoover (1874-1964)

The influence of the Bible in the early days of the Republic is plainly revealed in the writing & thinking of the men who made the nation possible...They found in the Scriptures that which shaped their course & determined their cause.

- Franklin Rooselvelt (1882-1945)

To the influence of the Book we are indebted for the progress made in civilisation, & to this we must look as our guide in the future. The Bible is the sheet-anchor of our liberties.

- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)



The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor & oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.

- Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe.

- Sir Ambrose Fleming (1849-1948)

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

- Charles Kingsley

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.

- Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University



Any number of people assume that the Bible says that Eve ate an apple, or that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Yet the Bible never says a word about whales or apples...It is unfair to turn round and blame the Bible because of all these legends and jokes and journalistic allusions, which are read into the Bible by people who have not read the Bible.

- G. K. Chesterton

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

- Robert Ingersoll

Both read the Bible day and night; but you read black where I read white.

- William Blake



If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in propound obscurity.

- Daniel Webster

The existence of the Bible as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

- Immanuel Kane

For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

- Martin Luther

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

- George Washington



The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

- Thomas Carlyle

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and guide would be gone; the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

- Henry Ward Beecher

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

- Immanuel Kant

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.

- Thomas Huxley

It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

- Horace Greeley



There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

- Sir Isaac Newton

So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

- John Quincy Adams

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

- John Ruskin

The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.

- Patrick Henry

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

- Thomas Paine

So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once a year.

- John Quincy Adams

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever growing influence of the Bible.

- W.H. Seward



It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

- George Washington (1732-1799)

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th U.S. President

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these, eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors.

- William Gladstone (1809-1898)



It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

- Horace Greeley (1811-1872)

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says. He is always convinced that it says what he means.

- George Bernard Shaw

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

- William Sloane Coffin



In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. ...I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.

- C.S. Lewis

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.

- Henry Ward Beecher

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

- Thomas Paine



I am going to put the Bible out of business.

- Robert Ingersoll

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

- Napoleon

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

- C.S. Lewis

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

- Voltaire

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.

- Corrie Ten Boom



In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... this grandiose, stirring history of the gradual revelation and unfolding of moral law... remains in every way an up-to-date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God. It is no longer enough that we pray that God may be with us on our side. We must learn again to pray that we may be on God's side.

- Werner Von Braun

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. I can take my telescope & look millions of miles into space; but I can go away to my room & in prayer get nearer to God & Heaven than I can when assisted by all the telescopes of Earth.

- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)



Bible reading is an education in itself.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)


May the LORD God bless you in the name of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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(http://www.tentmaker.org/Quotes/biblequotes.htm)
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We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the Word of God. We can experience the return of the Word of God in the here and now, the perpetual return of the actual, living, indisputable Word of God that makes possible the act of witnessing, but we should never think of the Bible as any sort of talisman or oracle constantly at our disposal that we need only open and read to be in relation to the Word of God and God Himself.

- Jacques Ellul



The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can be a wonderful thing to hear. It is the truth about the truth about the truth. But it is not the truth. There have been many books written about the things contained in the Bible. I have written some myself. They can be quite wonderful to read. They are the truth about the truth about truth about the Truth. But they are NOT the Truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Truth. Sometimes the Truth can be drowned in a multitude of words.

- Richard Wurmbrand



The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book.

- A. W. Tozer



All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more & more strongly the truth contained in the Sacred Scriptures.

- Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)



I believe the Bible is the best gift God has even given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.

- Abraham Lincoln



The letter of Scripture is a veil just as much as it is a revelation; hiding while it reveals, and yet revealing while it hides.

- Andrew Jukes



Who decides what is right and wrong in the world? Who has the authority to define morality for all of creation? It is not the courts, congress, the media, public opinion, the "politically correct" police, the "tolerance" brigade or even the church. The only answer has been, is and always will be Jesus Christ. You can find His opinion on a great variety of subjects in His best seller...The Bible.

- Jeffrey E. Ramey



It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table, and say, 'This is the Word of God. In it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,' I would shake my head and say, 'I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.' There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

- R.A. Torrey



We do not deny, nay we affirm and avow, that the very meanest translation of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession,...containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God: as the King’s speech which he uttered in Parliament, being translated into French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin, is still the King’s speech, though it not be interpreted by every translator with the like grace nor peradventure so fitly for phrase, nor so expressly for sense, everywhere.

- From the translators to the readers in the introduction to the original 1611 King James Bible.

Bible - Strange, Unique, and Astounding Words and Deeds of the Holy Bible

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

- John 1:1

- The Judeo-Christian Bible -

Strange, Unique, and Astounding Words and Deeds of the Holy Bible




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Some Strange and Astonishing Numbers of the Bible
- The King of Bashan was apparently so huge he had a bed measuring 13 and 1/2 feet long long and 6 feet wide. (Deutronomy 3:11)
- Absalom once had 6.5 pounds of actual hair removed during his annual haircut. (2 Samuel 14: 26)
- King Solomon had 700 wives, 300 concubines, and 12,000 horses. (1 Kings 11:1-3)
- An Army of 185,000 wound up being destroyed in a single night (Isaiah 37:36)
- Rehoboam was a father of 88 children. (2 Chronicles 11:21)
- King Zimri is said to have reigned for only 7 days. (I Kings 16:15)
- Methuselah, a son of Adam, lived to be 969 years old. (Genesis 5:27)
- Noah was 600 years old when he built the ark, and 950 years old when he died. (Genesis 7:6 and Genesis 9:29)
- Adam was 930 years old when he died. (Genesis 5:5)
- One man supposedly had 12 fingers and 12 toes. (2 Samuel 21:20)
- A Biblical army once consisted of 700 left-handed men. (Judges 20:16)



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Strange and Impossible Occurrences in the Bible
- A large group of men actually drank water like dogs. (Judges 7:5)
- A soaking wet sacrifice was then burnt through a supernatural occurrence. (1 Kings 18:17-40)
- A man named Balaam was once directly spoken to by a donkey. (Numbers 22:28-30)
- Women shaved their heads completely before getting married. (Deuteronomy 21:11-13)
- The once sun stood still for an entire day. (Joshua 10:13)
- One man increased his overall lifettime by 15 years simply with prayer. (Isaiah 38:1-5)
- The sun is purported to have gone backward, from west to east. (Isaiah 38:8)
- A prostitute named Rachab truly was an actual ancestor of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 1:5)
- The Prophet Elijah once outran a chariot. (1 Kings 18:41-46)
- An axe head made of iron ended up floating on top of the water. (I Kings 6:1-6)
- A desperate woman eventually boiled and ate her son (2 Kings 6:29)
- The wicked Jezebel eventually had her body eaten by dogs. (2 Kings 9:30-36)
- Jacob once used a stone for a pillow. (Genesis 28:1)
- A baby named Zarah once had scarlet thread tied around her hand before birth. (Genesis 38:28-30)
- The Prophet Isaiah allegedly walked around naked for three years. (Isaiah 20:2-3)
- The Bible is described as being cut with a pen knife. (Jeremiah 36:20-2)
- John the Baptist supposedly ate only locusts and honey for food. (Mathew 3:4)
- A woman personally killed a man by driving a nail through his head. (Judges 4:17-21)
- Moses once caused a victory on the battlefield simply because he stretched out his hand (Exodus 17:11)



- The life of Hezekaih was increased by 15 years because he prayed. (Isaiah 38:1-5)
- Seven women once wanted and sought after the same man. (Isaiah 4:1)
- Obviously dead, dry bones were then miraculously brought to life. (Ezekiel 37)
- God is described as having had a wash pot (Psalms 60:6-8)
- An ancient bottle of milk is also described. (Judges 4:19)
- Someone is reputed to have been the first left-handed man in history. (Judges 3:15)
- There are 2 men in the Bible who never died but were instead caught up into Heaven are Enoch, from Genesis, and Elisjah: 1) Enoch, who walked with God and was no more (Genesis 5:22-24), and 2) Elijah, who was caught up by a whirlwind into heaven (II Kings 2:11).
- In ancient Israel, men closed a deal by exchanging sandals. (Ruth 4:7)
- Once when Ezekiel was just sitting in his house alone, a gigantic hand suddenly picked him up by the hair of his head and took him somewhere between heaven and earth. (Ezekiel 8:3)



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The Biblical Roots of Odd and Original Phrases
A thorn in the side (2 Corinthians 12:7)
The Powers that be (Romans 13:1)
The handwriting on the wall (Daniel 5)
Can a leopard change its spots (Jeremiah 13:23)
Holier than thou (Isaiah 65:5)
A drop in the bucket (Isaiah 40:15)
Woe is me! (Isaiah 6:5
Like a lamb to slaughter (Isaiah 53:7)
Do not throw pearls before swine (Matthew 7:6)
Fire and brimstone (Genesis 19:24, Revelation 21:8)
The forbidden fruit (Genesis 2:17)
Eat, drink and be merry (Luke 12)
Money is the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10)
The skin of our teeth (Job 19:20)
A land flowing with milk and honey (Exodus 3:8)
Feet of Clay (Daniel 2:33-34)
Taking a Sabbatical (Leviticus 25:1-7, Deuteronomy 15:1-11)
Spare the rod, spoil the child (Proverbs 13:24)
By the sweat of your brow (Genesis 3:17,19)
It is better to give than to receive. (Acts. 20:35)
A leopard cannot change its spots. (Jeremiah 13:23)
The love of money is the root of all evil. (Timothy 6:10)
Nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. (John 8:7)
Fly in the ointment. (Ecclesiastes 10:1)
Salt of the earth. (Matthew 5:13)



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+ The Biblical Origins of 10 Specific Phrases +

1) Spare the rod, spoil the child-

He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.

- Proverbs 13:24

2) By the sweat of your brow-

To Adam he said, Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. ... By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.'

- Genesis 3:17,19

3) It is better to give than to receive-

In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

- Acts. 20:35

4) A leopard cannot change its spots-

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good Who are accustomed to doing evil

- Jeremiah 13:23



5) Money is the root of all evil-

For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

- Timothy 6:10

6) Nothing new under the sun-

That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.

- Ecclesiastes 1:9

7) Let him who is without sin cast the first stone-

But when they persisted in asking Him, Jesus straightened up, and said to them, 'Let He who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.'

- John 8:7

8) A Fly in the ointment-

Dead flies make a perfumer's oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor.

- Ecclesiastes 10:1



9) The Salt of the earth-

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

- Matthew 5:13

10) Being Used as a Scapegoat-

The goat on which the lot for the scapegoat fell shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.

- Leviticus 16:10



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May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Elijah.