Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible

The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the NT, were voted by yeas and nays to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the Popish councils of Nicea and Laodocia, about 1,450 years ago.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

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

For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name