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... Bible - The Age of Man on the Earth- " Inspired " Morality of the Bible - Miracles - Christian Dogmas - What the church has been Compelled to Abandon - The Appeal to Epithets , Hatred and Punishment- " Spirituality " the last Resource ...
... Bible - The Age of Man on the Earth- " Inspired " Morality of the Bible - Miracles - Christian Dogmas - What the church has been Compelled to Abandon - The Appeal to Epithets , Hatred and Punishment- " Spirituality " the last Resource ...
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... Bible , 383-387 THE TRUTH OF HISTORY . People who live by Lying - A Case in point - H . Hodson Rugg's Account of the Conversion of Ingersoll and 5,000 of his Followers- The " Identity of Lost Israel with the British Nation " -Old False ...
... Bible , 383-387 THE TRUTH OF HISTORY . People who live by Lying - A Case in point - H . Hodson Rugg's Account of the Conversion of Ingersoll and 5,000 of his Followers- The " Identity of Lost Israel with the British Nation " -Old False ...
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... Bible - Miracles - A Christian in Constantinople would not send his Child to a Mosque - Advice to all Agnostics - Strangle the Serpent of Superstition , · 531-534 VOL . XI . WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL CONTENTS .
... Bible - Miracles - A Christian in Constantinople would not send his Child to a Mosque - Advice to all Agnostics - Strangle the Serpent of Superstition , · 531-534 VOL . XI . WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL CONTENTS .
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WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE ? Character of the Bible - Men and Women not virtuous because of any Book - The Commandments both Good and Bad - Books that do not help Morality - Jehovah not a moral God - What ...
WHAT WOULD YOU SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE AS A MORAL GUIDE ? Character of the Bible - Men and Women not virtuous because of any Book - The Commandments both Good and Bad - Books that do not help Morality - Jehovah not a moral God - What ...
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... Bible The crime which the indictment alleges is Dlasphemy , for which the statutes of New Jersey provide a penalty of two hundred dollars fine , or twelve months imprison- ment , or both . It is the first case of the kind ever tried in ...
... Bible The crime which the indictment alleges is Dlasphemy , for which the statutes of New Jersey provide a penalty of two hundred dollars fine , or twelve months imprison- ment , or both . It is the first case of the kind ever tried in ...
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Page 283 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 36 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the...
Page 174 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Page 594 - Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Page 598 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue : and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Page 1 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?
Page 594 - For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
Page 247 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 600 - ... know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.