Who Said That?

Who Said That?

"Judaism has some advantages over Christianity in that, for example, it does not proselytise—except among Jews—and it does not make the cretinous mistake of saying that the Messiah has already made his appearance. … However, along with Islam and Christianity, it does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing."

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Update on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 07:04PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This despicable screed comes from Christopher Hitchens, Letter to a Young Contrarian (2001).  Wonder what his brother (who is a believer) would say?

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Who said that?

"I turned around and there stood Jesus Christ in all his glory!  It is one thing to see Jesus, but its a different thing altogether to see Jesus with all of his glory and all of his honor.  Many people have asked me what Jesus looks like.  He's 5 feet 11 to 6 feet tall, and he's got sandy brown hair.  It's not too long and its not too short.  He is a perfect man, that's what Jesus is.  Whatever you picture as a perfect man, that's what Jesus is.  He's perfect in everything--the way he looks, talks--everything."

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Update on Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 07:10PM by Kim Riddlebarger

These are the words of Roberts Liardon, from the booklet I Saw Heaven.  Since Liardon claims to have had this vision when he was just 8, this probably means that he wasn't smoking crack.  The question I have is this:  "is Liardon delusional, or just plain making this vision up?"  Liardon is the author of God's Generals (detailing the ministries of the pentecostal greats) and is associate pastor at a church here in Orange County.  The senior pastor?  His mother!  BTW--I didn't quote the really wacko stuff from I Saw Heaven.  That might come later.

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Who said that?

"Christianity will go.  It will vanish and shrink.  I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.  We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity."

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Update on Sunday, May 13, 2007 at 06:48PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a quote from John Lennon from the The Evening Standard (London, 4 March 1966).  This quip prompted a huge outcry!  Not only did the Beatles have long hair (remember how big a deal that was at the time), they were atheists too!

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Who said that?

"I fully adhere to the fundamental tenets of the Christian faith for myself and my ministry, but as an American, I respect other paths to God."

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Update on Sunday, May 13, 2007 at 06:53PM by Kim Riddlebarger

Sadly, these words come from Billy Graham, Parade Magazine, from October 20th 1996.

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Who Said That?

"The apostle, in this passage [Romans 7], is not treating about a man who is already regenerate through the Spirit of Christ, but has assumed the person of a man who is not yet regenerate. . . . But since it is certain, that the apostle has not, in this chapter, treated of himself personally, as distinguished from all other men of whatsoever condition or order they may be, but that he, under his own person, described a certain kind and order of men, whether they be those who are under the law and not yet regenerate, or those who are regenerate and placed under grace. . ."

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Update on Monday, May 7, 2007 at 02:29PM by Kim Riddlebarger

As many of you guessed, this quote comes from James Arminius in his lectures on Romans 7.  According to Arminius, this not autobiographical, but reflects the attitude of someone under the conviction of the law.

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Who said that?

Our faith, from our ancestors, which we have learned also from you, is this.  We know one God--alone unbegotten; alone everlasting, alone without beginning, alone true, alone possessing immortality, alone wise, alone good, alone master, judge of all, manager, director, immutable and unchangeable, just and good, God of Law, Prophets and New Testament--who begat an only begotten Son before eternal times, through whom he made the ages and everything."

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Update on Monday, April 30, 2007 at 11:26AM by Kim Riddlebarger

As some of you guessed, these words come from the arch-heretic Arius (in his letter to Alexander of Alexandria).  Sneaky heretic that he was, Arius goes on to define his earlier statement "begotten before eternal times" to mean, "he [the Son] was created by the will of God before times and ages."

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"We are not into partcular love or limited atonement.  As a matter of fact we consider it heresy."

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Update on Monday, April 23, 2007 at 11:37AM by Kim Riddlebarger

As many of you pointed out, these words came from Jerry Falwell in a recent speech.  Particular redemption is heresy?  What then do we do with a doctrine of the atonement in which Jesus saves no one in particular and only makes it possible for us to save ourselves with God's help--Falwell's view.

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Who Said That?

"Matthew says, that the angel that was sitting upon the stone on the outside of the sepulchre told the two Marys that Christ was risen, and that the women went away quickly. Mark says, that the women, upon seeing the stone rolled away, and wondering at it, went into the sepulchre, and that it was the angel that was sitting within on the right side, that told them so. Luke says, it was the two angels that were standing up; and John says, it was Jesus Christ himself that told it to Mary Magdalene; and that she did not go into the sepulchre, but only stooped down and looked in.

Now, if the writers of these four books had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury, and would have justly deserved it. Yet this is the evidence, and these are the books, that have been imposed upon the world as being given by divine inspiration, and as the unchangeable word of God. "

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Update on Monday, April 16, 2007 at 10:51AM by Kim Riddlebarger

These words come from Thomas Paine, well-known deist and buddy to many of the founding fathers.  The quote comes from Paine's best-selling book, Age of Reason (Part 2, sec. 15).

Any good commentary on the gospels, quickly and easily refutes these so-called "contradictions," many of which were dealt with as far back as Augustine. 

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Who Said That?

"The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.

1. That there is one only God, and he all perfect.

2. That there is a future state of rewards and punishments.

3. That to love God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself, is the sum of religion.

These are the great points on which he endeavored to reform the religion of the Jews. But compare with these the demoralizing dogmas of Calvin.

1. That there are three Gods.

2. That good works, or the love of our neighbor, are nothing.

3. That faith is every thing, and the more incomprehensible the proposition, the more merit in its faith.

4. That reason in religion is of unlawful use.

5. That God, from the beginning, elected certain individuals to be saved, and certain others to be damned; and that no crimes of the former can damn them; no virtues of the latter save.

Now, which of these is the true and charitable Christian?  He who believes and acts on the simple doctrines of Jesus?  Or the impious dogmatists, as Athanasius and Calvin?"

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Update on Monday, April 9, 2007 at 07:34AM by Kim Riddlebarger

These comments come from Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Benjamin Waterhouse (July 18, 1822).  So, Athanasius and Calvin are both false shepherds (as Jefferson goes on to state)?  Dr. Kennedy--you might want to rethink that Christian America business . . .

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Who said that?

"You know what happens? [in Revelation] Chapter 20, the Lord sets up His Kingdom. That's right. Look at verse 4, `I saw thrones,' what are they for? Look at the end of verse 4, they're for the saints who lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. You know what happens at the end of the thousand years? Verse 7, Satan is loosed a little while, he's been bound the whole time. He's loosed a little while. He goes out into the world and you know that during the Kingdom there will be some people who went in in physical bodies, they'll have kids, they'll repopulate the earth, they'll be a population all over the earth, some of those won't even believe in Jesus Christ though He's been reigning in the city of Jerusalem for a thousand years."

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Update on Monday, March 26, 2007 at 02:17PM by Kim Riddlebarger

OK, I couldn't resist the temptation to post a MacArthur quote.  The quote indicates how an otherwise careful biblical interpreter ends up with people having babies and revolting against Christ -- after the second coming and the end of the age (cf. Luke 20:34-36)!  Dispensationalism made him do it! The quote is from Dr. MacArthur's "Jet Tour Through Revelation" (audio 1290)