Discussion on the Existence of God and the Authenticity of the Bible Between Origen Bacheler and Robert Dale OwenJ. Watson, 1840 - 361 pages |
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... senses , rather than to believe in a miracle . The miraculous conception and divine character of the Saviour . Religion the ... sense the Bible is the word of God . Inconsistency of Mr. Owen relative to the subject of miracles . How to ...
... senses , rather than to believe in a miracle . The miraculous conception and divine character of the Saviour . Religion the ... sense the Bible is the word of God . Inconsistency of Mr. Owen relative to the subject of miracles . How to ...
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... senses alone ; cannot be imparted , and con- tinue a revelation to others . The miracles recorded of Jesus as unworthy of credit as those recorded by Livy . General character of Jesus too good to be the invention of his biographers ...
... senses alone ; cannot be imparted , and con- tinue a revelation to others . The miracles recorded of Jesus as unworthy of credit as those recorded by Livy . General character of Jesus too good to be the invention of his biographers ...
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... sense sufficient to detect the sophistry . None of the apostolic fathers mention the gospels of the evangelists . Gibbon's eloquent allusion . Effect of the democratic tendency of Jesus ' precepts . Sages of the first century found no ...
... sense sufficient to detect the sophistry . None of the apostolic fathers mention the gospels of the evangelists . Gibbon's eloquent allusion . Effect of the democratic tendency of Jesus ' precepts . Sages of the first century found no ...
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... senses , or influenced your actions , or acted upon your mind ; had fixed the exact strength of temptation that has ever assailed you , and the exact degree of support which may have been afforded you to meet that temptation ; if I had ...
... senses , or influenced your actions , or acted upon your mind ; had fixed the exact strength of temptation that has ever assailed you , and the exact degree of support which may have been afforded you to meet that temptation ; if I had ...
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... sense , and that would , were it to be generally adopted , sunder the ties which hold together society , and cause man to fly for shelter from the face of his fellow , to the thick forest or the craggy cliff . If we are conscious of any ...
... sense , and that would , were it to be generally adopted , sunder the ties which hold together society , and cause man to fly for shelter from the face of his fellow , to the thick forest or the craggy cliff . If we are conscious of any ...
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Page 99 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 99 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 100 - I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.
Page 19 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 15 - For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Page 38 - By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms, Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs...
Page 121 - eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the " poets speak of Saturn." And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation ; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Page 2 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 199 - For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Page 192 - He shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the rivers to the ends of the earth.