Hard Sayings Quotes

“But as we’ve seen, the Bible was not written as an “instruction book.” The biblical authors do not always recommend what they record and sometimes what they record is an abject lesson in what not to do.”
― Trent Horn, Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties

“The New Testament also primarily places the blame for mankind’s original sin on Adam, not Eve. In Romans 5:12, we learn that “sin came into the world through one man [emphasis added] and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned.” In 1 Corinthians 15:22 Paul declares, “or as in Adam [emphasis added] all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”
― Trent Horn, Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties

“If someone presents you with a disturbing verse in the Bible in order to prove that the Bible is bad, you should first read it in context (rule six),”
― Trent Horn, Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties

“Burridge goes on to say, “[T]rying to decode the Gospels through the genre of modern biography, when the author encoded his message in the genre of ancient [biography], will lead to another nonsense—blaming the text for not containing modern predilections which it was never meant to contain.”286 This includes blaming Mark for not describing Jesus’ infancy, blaming John for not describing events like the Last Supper, or blaming the evangelists as a whole for not conforming to our expectations of a modern biography or newspaper article. The differences among the Gospel accounts are also typical of ancient Roman historical writing.”
― Trent Horn, Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties