Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'
Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'
That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in fact reliable."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]