Sentence examples for violent bible from inspiring English sources

Discusses Anthony's close study of Scripture and the often boisterous and violent Bible study classes Anthony organized in Trinity's early years.

An analysis into whether the Quran is more violent than the Bible found killing and destruction occur more frequently in the Christian texts than the Islamic.

"The Bible is violent," Mr. Tidwell answered.

So why not simply ask about the God of the Bible being violent?

Coinciding with the success of Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ," the publication of the final volume ensures that dramatic, violent interpretations of the Bible will be one of the most noteworthy phenomena in American culture this year.

You hear Christians lapse into it all the time with the lazy argument, "Oh, that's just the Old Testament", when confronted by the claim that the Bible is violent.

"In Rwanda in 1994, Hutu preachers invoked King Saul's memory to justify the total slaughter of their Tutsi neighbors," writes Jenkins in his 2011 book, Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses (HarperCollins).

Now I can almost hear the indignation from well-meaning liberals "but the Bible has violent and hateful passages too..".

Some might claim that this assumption is because the Quran is full of violent passages while the Bible teaches only peace and love.

"Fighting is in the Old Testament; in fact, the Bible is real violent," said Patrick Hutton, a partner in the company.

"Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible," Jenkins said.