The infidel's own book, a statement of some of the absurdities resulting from the rejection of ChristianityHamilton, Adams, 1834 - 200 páginas |
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... witnessed by the suc- cessive generations of men for a thousand years . Let the result in all cases have been mainly and essentially the same : -suppose such characters as we have just described , to have become con- tented , honest ...
... witnessed by the suc- cessive generations of men for a thousand years . Let the result in all cases have been mainly and essentially the same : -suppose such characters as we have just described , to have become con- tented , honest ...
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... witnessed such an event . The whole force of this sophism lies in the am- biguity of the words " experience , ” and “ con- trary to . " If by " experience " is meant individual experience , then the same argument will enable a blind man ...
... witnessed such an event . The whole force of this sophism lies in the am- biguity of the words " experience , ” and “ con- trary to . " If by " experience " is meant individual experience , then the same argument will enable a blind man ...
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... witnessed a miracle , which is assuming the question in dispute . If by " experience " is meant the ordinary experience of men in general , then the argument is merely this : an inversion of the laws of nature is not an event which men ...
... witnessed a miracle , which is assuming the question in dispute . If by " experience " is meant the ordinary experience of men in general , then the argument is merely this : an inversion of the laws of nature is not an event which men ...
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... witnessed any deviation from what I believe to be the laws of nature , yet there are countless other phenomena , to which I am equally a stranger , which I am nevertheless compelled to believe ; ¡ and which the infidel believes just as ...
... witnessed any deviation from what I believe to be the laws of nature , yet there are countless other phenomena , to which I am equally a stranger , which I am nevertheless compelled to believe ; ¡ and which the infidel believes just as ...
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... witnessed a miracle ; but we know that mankind is sadly given to lying : - therefore we ought to believe their TESTIMONY , and to conclude that no miracle ever occurred.1 In the foregoing remarks , we have supposed the phrase " contrary ...
... witnessed a miracle ; but we know that mankind is sadly given to lying : - therefore we ought to believe their TESTIMONY , and to conclude that no miracle ever occurred.1 In the foregoing remarks , we have supposed the phrase " contrary ...
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Página 152 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 151 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; and labour, working with our own hands : being reviled, we bless : being persecuted, we suffer it : being defamed, we entreat : we are made as the filth of the earth, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Página 200 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Página 194 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Página 200 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Página 200 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again ; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Página 151 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one." " Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice J suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep.
Página 61 - As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, "so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, 'Am not I in sport?
Página 60 - Though I throw out my speculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical world, yet, in other things, I do not think so differently from the rest of mankind as you may imagine.