Which Old Testament Book Did Jesus Quote Most?

People didn’t follow Jesus only because of his miracles—they also followed him because he knew how to handle the Old Testament:

  • He could match wits with the temple teachers at age 12 (Lk 2:42, 46–47).
  • He resisted the devil’s temptations using passages from Deuteronomy (Mt 4:1–11).
  • He stumped the Pharisees when it came to who the son of David is (Mt 22:41–46).

Jesus is the greatest Old Testament scholar of all time, and it makes me wonder: which books of the Old Testament does Jesus quote most often in the Gospels?

  • Exodus: 7
  • Isaiah: 8
  • Deuteronomy: 10
  • Psalms: 11

 

 

The Real Landscapes of the Great Flood Myths

Analyzing sediment cores from the bed of the Black Sea, they discovered that before 5600 B.C., the sea was a large freshwater lake. Then, when glacial ice melting off the poles raised sea levels worldwide, the Mediterranean overtopped a narrow strip of land and decanted into the lake. The inflow “roared and surged at full spate for at least three hundred days,” the researchers write in their book Noah’s Flood, cascading over the land at 200 times the flow of Niagara Falls.

.. Saint Augustine, a fourth-century bishop in a Roman province of Africa, warned against readings of the Bible that conflicted with reason and the study of nature. In his view, the earth didn’t lie. When he found seashells encased in mountain rock, he took them as confirmation of a global flood. How else could the bodies of marine creatures get locked up in mountaintops?

The Arrogance of Jeb Bush

In fables, in biblical parables, in history lessons mostly forgotten, a single theme repeats itself: It’s arrogant to defy nature.

Arrogance is thinking you can build subdivisions in a flood plain, because everyone around you is doing it.

.. Arrogance is the certainty that you can geoengineer your way out of whatever mess you make.