I came across the following words by James Hamilton and would like to share them with you all. Some may suppose them to be humorous. May it never be. They struck me as being anything but such, rather I found them to be edifying, challenging, and utterly sobering.
- "If you decide to read through the Greek New Testament, be careful. The things in that book got most of its authors killed, and when people have taken it seriously in the history of the church, crazy things like the reformation have happened and some folks even got themselves burned at the stake. The Greek New Testament is decidedly unsafe. If you embrace it, you will be hated (see John 15:18-20). To paraphrase Lester De Koster: 'There it is, throbbing on your desk, the living word of God.'"