You will get yourself all wrapped around the axle if you try to take Biblical statements as fact. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
I soon became a Calvinist given the Bible's very direct statements about predestination, election etc - and even biblical statements addressing Calvinistic conclusions (and anti-Calvinistic objections) from those statements. (redeeminggod.com)
No interpretation of data can be put forward as Christian on the authority of Biblical statements as such or on the authority of the empirical church. (religion-online.org)