Craig Blomberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never take biblical interpretation lightly. Never assume you've arrived or learned all that you can. Be a lifelong learner, but always apply what you're learning to yourself in real-life situations. Accurate interpretation is meant to lead to obedience.
-- Craig Blomberg

#Biblical #Assuming #Never Assume
No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth.
-- Craig Blomberg

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Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in poetry. Don't treat a proverb as an exception-less absolute.
-- Craig Blomberg

#Assuming #Metaphor #Apocalyptic
In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses, annunciations, and so on. Epistles can be apologetic, commendatory, friendship-oriented, exhortational, diatribes.
-- Craig Blomberg

#Farewell #Miracle #Apologetic
The Bible may be more than an ordinary human book but it's not less, and the same principles therefore apply in interpreting it as in interpreting what my wife wants me to do. Only the stakes are even higher!
-- Craig Blomberg

#Book #Wife #My Wife
Protestants and Catholics have historically disagreed on the canon of the Old Testament but agreed on the canon of the New Testament. Christians throughout history have at times been imprisoned and even martyred for keeping books of the Bible or whole Bibles when told to surrender them to political authorities.
-- Craig Blomberg

#Christian #Book #Political
The Bible itself claims that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom".
-- Craig Blomberg

#Lord
With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.
-- Craig Blomberg

#Biblical #Expectations

The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.
The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.
Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.
Never take biblical interpretation lightly. Never assume you've arrived or learned all that you can. Be a lifelong learner, but always apply what you're learning to yourself in real-life situations. Accurate interpretation is meant to lead to obedience.

Craig Blomberg famous quotes

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