In Their Own Words: Great Men and Women Who Highly Respected the Bible
Historically, the Bible has been held in the highest esteem by many great
men and women-presidents, prime ministers, monarchs, scholars, scientists,
philosophers and more. Following are what some of them have said about
the Bible.
The brilliant German scholar and philosopher Immanuel Kant said: "The
existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit
which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it
is a crime against humanity."
Sir Francis Bacon, known as the father of the scientific method, wrote: "There
are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error;
first, the volume of Scriptures, which reveal the will of God, then the
volume of the Creatures [Creation], which express His power."
Wernher von Braun, regarded as the father of the American space program,
wrote: "In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science
to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible-this grandiose,
stirring history of the gradual revelation and unfolding of the moral law-remains
in every way an up-to-date book."
The great English playwright Sir Walter Scott wrote: "The most learned,
acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire
knowledge of this one Volume. The most deeply he works the mine, the richer
and more abundant he finds the ore; new light continually beams from this
source of heavenly knowledge to direct the conduct, and illustrate the
work of God and the ways of men; and he will at last leave the world confessing
that the more he studied the Scriptures the fuller conviction he had of
his own ignorance, and of their inestimable value."
The noted French writer and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote: "Peruse
the works of our philosophers; with all their pomp of diction, how mean,
how contemptible, are they, compared with the Scriptures! Is it possible
that a Book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of
man?"
