Pastoral Resources

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles."

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'