"WHEREVER the palm-tree is, there is water," says the Eastern proverb; and so, wherever the godly flourish, there, we are sure, must the Word of God be found."

“Paul’s letter to Rome is the high peak of Scripture, however you look at it. Luther called it ‘the clearest gospel of all’. ‘If a man understands it’, wrote Calvin, ‘he has a sure road opened for him to the understanding of the whole Scripture.’ Tyndale, in his Preface to Romans, linked both thoughts, calling Romans ‘the principal and most excellent part of the New Testament, and most pure Euangelion, that is to say glad tidings and that we call gospel, and also a light and a way in unto the whole Scripture.’ All roads in the Bible lead to Romans, and all views afforded by the Bible are seen most clearly from Romans, and when the message of Romans gets into a person’s heart there is no telling what may happen.”

"there is nothing easier in the world than to think. . . and nothing harder than to think well."

Fellowship with the Father, and with the Son, and with the Holy Spirit. . . Nothing in the universe is better!

John the Baptist's Dad said this.
The Bible is telling one story.
God spoke in the past. God promised mercy.
God remembers what he said. He keeps his oaths.
God is merciful.

I dare you to read LUKE 1.

“Modern atheism boasts about putting God on trial. God does not measure up to their standards. A triune God does not measure up to their standards of rationality: How can three be one? A God who expresses jealous wrath against His enemies and His people, or a God who orders the slaughter of the Canaanites, does not measure up to their standards of morality. Atheists think they are being daring, cutting edge, innovative, creative, when they subject God to their own standards, and find that He does not measure up. Hardly. Modern atheists are simply repeating the gestures that we find in the gospel story itself.” Leithart

And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

Jesus said [SAYS] to him, “You have said so.”

Matthew writes the praesens historicum “says” (not “said”) because what Jesus says here is of permanent significance—he is still saying it. (Dale Bruner)

“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

These are grumblers,
malcontents,
following their own sinful desires;
they are loud-mouthed boasters,
showing favoritism to gain advantage.

—Jude

'Without Scripture, the whole world would be plunged into the obscurity of deep-shadowed darkness." Henri de Lubac