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... admit , received no help from heaven . In all ages of which any record has been preserved , there have been those who gave their ideas of justice , charity , liberty , love and law . Now , if the Bible is really the work of God , it ...
... admit , received no help from heaven . In all ages of which any record has been preserved , there have been those who gave their ideas of justice , charity , liberty , love and law . Now , if the Bible is really the work of God , it ...
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... admit that it was hardly fair to steal a babe from its mother's breast . It has always seemed reasonable that an infinite God ought to have been able to make man grand enough to know , even without a special revelation , that it is not ...
... admit that it was hardly fair to steal a babe from its mother's breast . It has always seemed reasonable that an infinite God ought to have been able to make man grand enough to know , even without a special revelation , that it is not ...
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... admitting , for the time being , that the books were all written at the times claimed , and by the persons whose names ... admit that he who inspired them did know exactly what occurred , and consequently there should be no contradiction ...
... admitting , for the time being , that the books were all written at the times claimed , and by the persons whose names ... admit that he who inspired them did know exactly what occurred , and consequently there should be no contradiction ...
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... admit that Matthew never heard of the atonement , and died utterly ignorant of the scheme of salvation . I also admit that Mark never dreamed that it was necessary for a man to be born again ; that he knew nothing of the mysterious ...
... admit that Matthew never heard of the atonement , and died utterly ignorant of the scheme of salvation . I also admit that Mark never dreamed that it was necessary for a man to be born again ; that he knew nothing of the mysterious ...
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... admit that the necessity of belief , the atonement , and the scheme of salvation are all set forth in the Gospel of John , —a gospel , in my opinion , not written until long after the others . -in According to the prevailing Christian ...
... admit that the necessity of belief , the atonement , and the scheme of salvation are all set forth in the Gospel of John , —a gospel , in my opinion , not written until long after the others . -in According to the prevailing Christian ...
Contents
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THE FIELDINGERSOLL DISCUSSION | 121 |
of OpinionCharles DarwinDr Fields Distinction between Super | 143 |
Retribution a Necessary Part of the Divine LawThe Case of Robin | 183 |
Claim The Incurably BadResponsibility for not seeing Things | 199 |
COLONEL INGERSOLL ON CHRISTIANITY | 221 |
Church not in DangerClasses who Break out into Articulate Blas | 251 |
and AbrahamRelation between Darwinism and the Inspiration | 255 |
Rise and FlourishMormonismAlleged Universality of the Catholic | 364 |
Some infamous PopesPart II How the Pope SpeaksReligions | 372 |
either Divine Origin or Supernatural AidCardinal Mannings Argu | 405 |
1889 | 406 |
from PolygamyBiblical MarriagePolygamy Simultaneous | 431 |
REPLY TO DR LYMAN ABBOTT | 455 |
1890 | 475 |
Power of KindnessCrimes against Soldiers and SailorsMisfortunes | 503 |
The Church Its Own Witness by Cardinal ManningEvidence | 307 |
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Popular passages
Page 72 - But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God . 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
Page 302 - And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul : so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Page 288 - Neither was there any among them that lacked : for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Page 195 - What are these which are arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they? And I said unto him ; Sir thou knowest. And he said to me ; These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Page 89 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 203 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 196 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 190 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 270 - They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.