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id: 15968
title: The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old
author: English, George Bethune
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  New Testament endeavour to prove Christianity from the Old. Chapter II. the Old; and Jesus of Nazareth is the person said in the New Jesus himself is represented as proving the truth of Christianity of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and DAVID hand, the prophet said (see the chapter,) �The Lord shall give you the prophecies of the Old Testament were really fulfilled in Jesus, prophecies--�The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,� &c.--Gen. xlix.; and this--�Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people,�� Jesus is the Messiah of the Old Testament; and those of our readers ix.:--�He shall speak peace to the nations.� Jesus says he came to Again, �Upon you (says Jesus to the Jews) shall come all the Old Testament, I shall endeavour to prove by several arguments. Messiah in the Old Testament, no miracles can prove Jesus to be the


id: 19397
title: History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
author: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
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  in the "_Reasonable Thoughts of God_," "_Natural Theology_," and "_Moral Christian Religion and Church_, embracing the period from the close of history of the Church of Christ is the clear exhibition of the divine [60] _History of the Christian Religion and Church._ _Preface to First Hence, we safely presume the existence of an eternal God. This being is the foundation of Christian faith and life. Christians in the form in which church-theology has allowed those ideas of grace and truth in Jesus Christ, as the Son of God and of man, by that the power to work them is still in the church over which Christ FRANCE: RATIONALISM IN THE PROTESTANT CHURCH--THE CRITICAL SCHOOL OF All Christian churches live by faith. faith are attacked, the differences existing between Christian churches I have seen Christianity working, not only in churches, but, called the Church when it recognizes its relation to God in Christ, and


id: 19879
title: Five Pebbles from the Brook
author: English, George Bethune
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  beginning of the second chapter of his book, "and which Mr. English supposes to be predicted in the Old Testament, is ''a have been the Messiah, that "the Lord God shall give unto him the know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. to her mother in-law "thy people shall be my people." Will Mr. Everett look a little farther to the 1 Sam. ch. "They shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I Shall I proceed to the consideration of some little arguments of Mr. Everett against the intended perpetuity of the Mosaic law derived Jehovah at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of people, and give ear unto me O, my nation: for a law shall [i.e. the Messiah,] shall speak peace unto the nations: and his that I am Jehovah, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified


id: 19566
title: Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
author: Patterson, Robert
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  befogs the serene light of God''s holy law, and gives the directing power belongeth unto God. In world-building we need not only a quarry of materials, and power for 1. The divine development of the world is a great fact; the theory of class who do not like to accept the Bible doctrine that God created man, 5. _The World''s History is the record of man''s crimes, and God''s God, adored the sun, and moon, and stars of heaven, and in process of The Bible is a great fact in the world''s history, known alike to the world was in as great need of God''s teaching before the coming of Christ God created the earth only six thousand years ago, but in many places the Bible can not be the Word of God, because it asserts facts contrary If the Bible had said that God created the heavens and the earth in six


id: 30900
title: The Tyranny of God
author: Lewis, Joseph
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  present human species after the life and death of an illimitable number child the parents would not harm, Nature tortures and God kills! making him a Man. Disease is one of Nature''s cardinal forces. powerful than our minds, used to numb the pains of life, are so much in Human life is the cheapest thing that God makes! The mind, through fear of death, is capable of suffering, within a few feel pain as long as we possess "life." In a sense, therefore, death is After all, the severest pains of death lie in the brains of the living. We live our life by material means. that Nature forces him to live. living life in our former condition, after our efforts have brought us Death is always preferable to the living of a "dog''s life!" And yet, and chaotic forces of Nature, so as to make life and living a little


id: 24594
author: English, George Bethune
title:
  Letter to the Reverend Mr. Cary Containing Remarks upon his Review of the Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing the New Testament to the Old


id: 3743
title: The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason
author: Paine, Thomas
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  thing at that time to believe a man to have been celestially begotten; shame at calling such paltry stories the word of God. As to the account of the creation, with which the book of Genesis opens, Did the book called the Bible excel in purity of ideas and expression person is; for the Creator is the Father of All. The first four books, called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, do not give the Bible; and I begin with what are called the five books of Moses, years after the death of Moses; as men now write histories of things point that the book proves is that the author lived long after the time Jerusalem at this day; meaning the time when the book of Joshua was confusion, contradiction, and cruelty in this pretended word of God. The first book of Kings begins with the reign of Solomon, which,


id: 6107
title: The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth?
author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch)
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  Christianity.] Our answer to the question, Is Jesus a Myth? there was a man called Jesus, who said many helpful things, and led an like the above that can prove a man a God. Has Jesus kept his promise? early Christian times, it is not Jesus, but a lamb, which is bleeding The early Fathers made this Jew admit that Jesus was the Son of God. Of course, the admission was a forgery. the miracle-working Jesus of the gospels was not known in Paul''s time, There was ignorance in the world before Christianity; has Jesus faith in the world when "the son of man cometh"; and it was Jesus who called upon the Christian world to think of Jesus as a man," Dr. Barton replies with considerable temper: "To date people''s right to Jesus is historical because a man by the name of Paul says so, though


id: 10684
title: A History of Freedom of Thought
author: Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)
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  how, when public opinion was formed by the views of such men, thought thinking, to train reason to look upon the universe in new ways and to [51] of freedom of thought, religious liberty, toleration, had not been Christians had claimed toleration on the ground that religious belief is the Church introduced into the public law of Europe the new principle to reconcile the old religion with new ideas; but the general tendency religion, and the author surveys the history of Christianity to show the a relatively tolerant spirit prevailed among the Christian sects and new In the German States the history of religious liberty differs in many on the question whether the Deity of natural religion �the God whose there are more gods than one, or shall deny the Christian religion to be the publication of an anti-Christian work, The Age of Reason (1794 and


id: 37694
title: Reason, the Only Oracle of Man; Or, A Compendius System of Natural Religion
author: Allen, Ethan
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  of God, so from our own rational nature we learn an idea of his moral moral rectitude of the divine nature is infinitely well pleasing to God, unerring guidance of the providence of God. Animal nature consists of a regular constitution of a variety of organic contradiction in nature, and consequently impossible for God to inspire, AND AGENCY OF GOD, AS IT RESPECTS THE NATURAL AND MORAL WORLD, WITH in the nature of things possible for us to receive, or for God external and natural revelation, in which God is supposed to make use human mind, through which God reveals to man the knowledge of nature, of God, either in his eternal constitution of nature, or in a supposed power of God, countermanding his eternal order of nature, and impressing any alteration in the nature of things, or providence of God, is knowledge of things is derived from God, in and by the order of nature,


id: 37234
title: My Path to Atheism
author: Besant, Annie
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  laid by his teaching the world is slowly rising to a purer faith in God. We need now such a leader as he was--one who would dare to follow the work of God" is to believe on him; he gives "life unto the world;" he man, in order to make men acceptable to God. It is, perhaps, scarcely towards sin, and offering to God for man a perfect repentance for human infirmity which men have transferred to their idea of God. A man who has announced his intention to punish may be persuaded out of humanity, and to be an heir of God it needs only to be a son of man. man Jesus is readily grasped by a child''s intellect; the God of the Old Power which man calls God. Revelation depicts Him as changeable, nature as man, then God did not come from heaven to save men; then this is


id: 39455
author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch)
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  In his lecture on, "Is Life Worth Living," the professor admits that he Life is worth living, in short, if man is unseen world and the immortality of man? existence of a God or of a life after death. man, as theology makes it the creature of God. You see that after all, In other words, God may be true or not, a future life may be such arguments as he uses to prop up the belief in God and immortality answer, "Man said, let there be a God, and there was one." This is is indispensable to make life worth living, or to help make the world will fear the opening of the books; it will be God. And how do we know that things will be better in the unseen world? In conclusion: Not God, nor the unseen world, but Truth is the sovereign

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  Is Life Worth Living Without Immortality? A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society, Chicago


id: 40978
author: Francis, Samuel W. (Samuel Ward)
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  say, the Jews believed in other gods, I refer him to Judges, chap. the priest found a book of the law of God _given_ by Moses, and sent it you suppose the Jews preserved the word of God. But what is most curious the Jews, God''s chosen nation, at any period, either while under his authority from God as Moses; and miracles are never wanting to prove it. doubt, read, that there was a book of the law of Moses, in which Joshua children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses only book either Moses or Joshua were ever said to have written; the mention as a book written and existing a few years after Moses, turns of God. I beg the reader will observe, that the writer of the Book of Joshua had of God. I shall follow the order of the books without attempting an

title:
  Watson Refuted Being an Answer to the Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters to the Bishop Of Llandaff


id: 40211
author: Carlile, Richard
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  instructed to allow that the general body of dissenters from the Church present mystery of the Christian Church. and a proving people are necessary to make a Church of Christ. The present state of the Church is, that it is a theatre of mystery, useful exhortation; for revelation of knowledge, or mind, or reason; ministry of the Church more afraid of knowledge than of the people''s Man''s knowledge of existence is of a twofold nature: the things that the mysterious doctrine of the Christian Church, in this way; and I am knowledge of Christ, which is not now in the Church, nor yet among any every Church; the mystery would not pass on the people without them. The mystery of the existing Church, in all its grades of dissent, having The true meaning of Church, is STATE OF MIND. Give the people knowledge in their Churches, and

title:
  Church Reform The Only Means to That End, Stated in a Letter to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., First Lord of the Treasury


id: 50534
title: The Three Impostors
author: nan
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  had said that "Three Seducers"--Moses, Jesus Christ, and Mahomet, had said that he considered Moses, Jesus Christ and Mahomet as "Three impiety--that Moses, Jesus Christ, and Mahomet had ruled the world been most followed, Jesus Christ, Moses, or Mahomet. creed; but a man who could regard Moses and Jesus Christ as impostors, those of Moses, the great Lawgiver of God. Is there not a book, ''The the true God--the Jewish, the Christian, and the Mahometan?--a book the law of Moses, of Christ and of Mahomet, because they are as like the book having been written by a learned man in high repute at the into the nature of God. Belief in final causes refuted as contrary Scripture to prove that man is chief of God''s works below, and formed Terror having thus created the Gods, men wished to ascertain their last to follow the God of Jesus Christ.


id: 50715
author: nan
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  which are these words (translated): "Moses saw God in the burning man, so that when it is said that God has made everything in order, Fear which created Gods, made also Religion, and when men imbibed people of this God, provided they believed what he said on his part. establishing divine worship, or of a supreme God of whom he said he having been found, it was believed that his God had taken him, and such a man would be a great enemy of God, the delight of the Devil, the is to say, man, for whom it is said God has created the universe. people believe that the voice of God declared himself for Mahomet, great number should especially be accepted as God. For every religion religion and the worship of God according to the promptings of natural I. Book about the nature of the Gods.

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  De Tribus Impostoribus, A. D. 1230: The Three Impostors Translated (with notes and comments) from a French manuscript of the work written in the year 1716, with a dissertation on the original treatise and a bibliography of the various editions


id: 31941
title: Rationalism
author: Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
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  to apply ''reason'' in such matters was by many orthodox persons regarded to make their moral philosophy quadrate with that of ''natural religion.'' quasi-rational form upon tradition, and to give reasons for recognising The rationalist, in fact, is merely a person who in certain directions proof, measures of evidence, consistency of reasoning. It may ''reasonably'' be ''inferred'' (to use terms which Mr. Balfour reasonableness of their beliefs, or their way of believing, in contrast the process of nature can be justified by ''reason''; and that accordingly claiming for the ''reasoning'' man that experience goes a long way to reasoning is a working of the mind on the facts of life; and that the argument be not a process of reasoning, neither word is intelligible. ''reasons why'' certain propositions or judgments should be believed or the moral law of the intellectual life for the rationalist, the


id: 38107
title: The Gods From ''The Gods and Other Lectures''
author: Ingersoll, Robert Green
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  of war, because the bible is the word of God. As a matter of fact, there be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. become as gods, knowing good and evil." For this reason, religion Man, in his# ignorance, supposed that all phenomena were produced by to conceive of a god utterly unlike himself, and he naturally supposed supposed influence with the gods, made of his fellow-man a cringing This belief in good and evil powers had its origin in the fact that man nations, the gods still interfere; but in prize fights, the best man of interference by the gods in this age of the world, still thinks, of cause and effect, proves the existence of a power superior to nature. Of what use have the gods been to man? Would an infinitely wise, good and powerful God, intending to produce


id: 43728
title: Natural Man
author: Moss, Arthur B.
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  fairly at the facts of nature; to observe man under various aspects; life with his enemies, the destructive lower animals and his fellow men, and to find in the course of years that a higher form of man has evolved general truth of the Darwinian theory, our idea of the origin of man uncertain sound concerning man''s progress in the world and the means by As a civilised creature man is not many centuries proofs that man many ages ago lived in "holes in the earth," and went man was not depraved by nature is seen by the fact that in the general nor the love of cleanliness is natural to man, but only the capacity of Having then all these bad qualities of nature, how is it that man has They were told that God made man. When the sceptical man had a chance of life, his advance towards


id: 45483
title: The Story of My Mind; Or, How I Became a Rationalist
author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch)
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  Jesus was God, neither is there any that he was morally perfect. for immortality proves another and an endless life, the desire for God, "Much less can men not professing the Christian religion be saved, _be fear of the gods and their priests--a soldier to help man break his that only faith in God and the hope of a future life can enable us to out of joint in order to justify God''s way to man. establish a relation of some kind between God and the world''s life. heaven, then, it can not be all right with the world, even if "God''s in fatalism of "God''s in His Heaven, all''s right with the world" idea, when Rationalism and the World''s Great Religions. nature of a God whom no man has ever seen, heard or comprehended. and in a society where man, not woman, is the ruler, God is a "he."


id: 45053
title: The Churches and Modern Thought An inquiry into the grounds of unbelief and an appeal for candour
author: Phelips, Vivian
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  the long history of man and his animal origin; the reign of natural articles of the Christian Faith, and who would leave the Church if if we are Christians, let us assume that Christ, as man, believed He his work on True Christian Religion, "received anything appertaining the fact that, ages before the Christian era, certain miracles were causing well-informed men and women to lose faith in Christianity. of the Christian; the fact remains that beliefs once held by devout study of ancient and even modern non-Christian [118] beliefs. latest Christian theory, with the further advance of God''s revelation), The conservative Christian believes that man was originally endowed it should be borne in mind that, although a man cannot be a Christian with the far more humane and moral conduct of men in pre-Christian been worshipped by the Christian Church as the immortal Son of God,


id: 45068
title: The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth? Illustrated
author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch)
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  like the above that can prove a man a God. Has Jesus kept his promise? early Christian times, it is not Jesus, but a lamb, which is bleeding The early Fathers made this Jew admit that Jesus was the Son of God. Of course, the admission was a forgery. Paul''s time, that is to say, the earliest Jesus known to the churches single saying of Jesus in the gospels which is quoted by Paul in his religion of Jesus alone can save the world. There was ignorance in the world before Christianity; has Jesus faith in the world when "the son of man cometh"; and it was Jesus who called upon the Christian world to think of Jesus as a man," Dr. Barton replies with considerable temper: "To date people''s right to Jesus is historical because a man by the name of Paul says so, though


id: 45823
title: Essays in Rationalism
author: Newman, Charles Robert
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  Of Charles Robert Newman, until the death of his brother, the Cardinal, By "truth" you mean the ascertained existence of any idea or thing, principles are the ground whereon we build in our reasonings; all that certain ideas or things, and reason, who forms propositions suggested They are perceived by us to be true by an act of reason called that first principles of reason must needs be, I must speculate for aimed to realise a certain first principle of reason, which I shall experience, and no more belongs to first principles of reason than to is, first principles of reason are merely the result of one of those principles derived from the various use of the word reason--which reasoning--a word proper to demonstrative truth--seems to be nothing science and of worldly business, reason is the judge of all truth To the rights of reason belongs a certain degree of power, both in


id: 46986
title: The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence
author: Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer)
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  Theodor Keim, a German-Christian writer on Jesus, says: "The passage "The very names of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, incarnate Word of John, nor the demi-god of Matthew and Luke. of the church Christians believed that Jesus was simply a man--the Religion" says: "According to the Synoptics, Jesus is baptized by John, Matthew: "Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we Matthew: "He [Jesus] asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus following day Nathanael said to Jesus, "Thou art the Son of God; the sons of God. Referring to Christ''s claim, a Jewish writer says: Matthew, Luke and John: "Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, According to Mark Christ is a man; according to Matthew and Luke, was the original Gospel of Matthew, represented Jesus as saying,


id: 59651
title: The Creation of God
author: Hartmann, Jacob
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  soul, spirit, God or Jehovah, they were evolved in the brain of man; of substances, called organic, that are derived from living things or Verse 15: "And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden Verse 18: "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should taken place between mortal man and a God. Adam tells him that he has Verse 22: "And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one Verse 5: "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the contrary to the laws of nature; that neither God nor man could, if they the Lord thy God." And the man Moses knew what he was talking about, as a nation, to any supernatural power, to God, Jehova, or the Lord, of five elements, as muscle, brain, blood; these are Oxygen, Carbon,


