Ancient Faiths and Modern: A Dissertation Upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist |
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... proved by the sword . Church and state in modern times . " Nerve " required to change a belief . Moral courage . What is faith ? Absurd definition given by Paul . Faith must be uncompromising . Why faith signifies blind confidence ...
... proved by the sword . Church and state in modern times . " Nerve " required to change a belief . Moral courage . What is faith ? Absurd definition given by Paul . Faith must be uncompromising . Why faith signifies blind confidence ...
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... prove them wrong . Excommunication easier than refuta- tion . What an honest merchant and divine should do when they discover a dia- mond to be paste . Ought the divine to be less honest than the merchant ? The Author's challenge ...
... prove them wrong . Excommunication easier than refuta- tion . What an honest merchant and divine should do when they discover a dia- mond to be paste . Ought the divine to be less honest than the merchant ? The Author's challenge ...
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... proved , what indeed Colenso and a host of German critics have demonstrated in another fashion , that its historical portions are not to be depended upon ; that its stories are of no more real value than so many fairy tales or national ...
... proved , what indeed Colenso and a host of German critics have demonstrated in another fashion , that its historical portions are not to be depended upon ; that its stories are of no more real value than so many fairy tales or national ...
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... proved , moreover , that the remote antiquity of its authorship has been greatly exaggerated ; that the stories of the creation , of the flood , of Abraham , of Jacob , of the descent into , and the exodus from , Egypt , of the career ...
... proved , moreover , that the remote antiquity of its authorship has been greatly exaggerated ; that the stories of the creation , of the flood , of Abraham , of Jacob , of the descent into , and the exodus from , Egypt , of the career ...
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... proved that the Jews had no idea whatever of a future state , and were in utter ignorance of heaven or hell ; that they regarded the Almighty as punishing crime or rewarding goodness in this world alone , and , consequently , we ...
... proved that the Jews had no idea whatever of a future state , and were in utter ignorance of heaven or hell ; that they regarded the Almighty as punishing crime or rewarding goodness in this world alone , and , consequently , we ...
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