Edward Fudge > Quotes

“For the first readers of Hebrews, it is appealing because they are tired—“tired of serving the world, tired of worship, tired of Christian education, tired of being peculiar and whispered about in society, tired of the spiritual struggle, tired of trying to keep their prayer life going, tired even of Jesus. The threat . . . is not that they are charging off in the wrong direction; they do not have enough energy to charge off anywhere. . . . Tired of walking the walk, many of them are considering taking a walk, leaving the community and falling away from the faith” (Long, Hebrews, 3). Throughout”
― Edward William Fudge, Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today

“The invisible realities predated the visible universe which the invisible God spoke into being by his word.”
― Edward William Fudge, Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today

“For the believer, faith is an organ of spiritual perception more dependable than the physical senses of hearing and of sight. 11:2”
― Edward William Fudge, Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today

“But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festive gathering, 23 to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven,”
― Edward William Fudge, Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today

“Our author envisions reality in terms of an eternal realm presently invisible to our earthly senses, and a temporary realm we can now see and touch but that will soon pass away.”
― Edward William Fudge, Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today

“From the beginning, God intended for men and women to shine with dignity in their role as caretakers of the rest of creation.”
― Edward William Fudge, Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today

“Some Christians read Hebrews and conclude that steadfastness makes us God’s house. Other Christians (including me) read Hebrews and conclude that steadfastness confirms that we are God’s house. Either way the outcome is the same: saving faith trusts and obeys until the very end. Reaching the destination infallibly validates the pilgrim’s quest and authenticates the pilgrim’s profession.”
― Edward William Fudge, Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today

“Throughout the New Testament, “faith” means active trust and reliance.”
― Edward William Fudge, Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today

“God has appointed that each human being should live one life, die one death and pass through one judgment for the life once lived. Therefore Jesus Christ also lived one life, died one death and God judged the life Christ had lived. Finding it pleasing in every respect, God certified his verdict by raising Christ from the dead. Because of Jesus’ one life, one death and one judgment, God accepts the “many” who now eagerly wait for him to return bringing salvation. UNPACKING”
― Edward William Fudge, Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today

“The shapers of Protestant orthodoxy were sensitive to Rome’s false claims of authority”
― Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment

“What we consider neatness and simplicity is not always a characteristic of Divine working”
― Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment

“The most authentic heirs of the Reformation are not those who close their eyes and cling with all their might to a particular creed or confession of faith. They are those who”
― Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment

“A major principle of the Reformation was reformata et semper reformanda—reformed and always reforming,” writes Roger Olson. “How is continuing reform of evangelical faith and life possible if being evangelical requires firm adherence to a humanly devised cognitive structure of doctrinal content?”16 Such blind allegiance to a man-made system subverts the purpose of theology by making humankind”
― Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment

“as McGrath explains. It seems to be a general feature of the history of Christian thought that a period of genuine creativity is immediately followed by a petrification and scholasticism”
― Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment