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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... idea of Jupiter and his inferior deities ; that the Hebrews regarded Jehovah as having human passions and very human failings as loving , revengeful , stern , merry , and vacillating - as " everything by turns and nothing long " -as ...
... idea of Jupiter and his inferior deities ; that the Hebrews regarded Jehovah as having human passions and very human failings as loving , revengeful , stern , merry , and vacillating - as " everything by turns and nothing long " -as ...
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... ideas and practices of those who conquered them . Still further , 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 ...
... ideas and practices of those who conquered them . Still further , 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 ...
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... idea of a Celestial Being , and how they were described in turn as His ministers , His residence , His army , and sometimes even as Himself . We showed , moreover , that the Almighty was depicted by some as a male , having the ...
... idea of a Celestial Being , and how they were described in turn as His ministers , His residence , His army , and sometimes even as Himself . We showed , moreover , that the Almighty was depicted by some as a male , having the ...
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... idea of the trinity in unity , which is a doctrine recognized as far back amongst all nations as history will carry us , was originally founded solely upon the well - known fact that the characteristic of the male is a triad , of which ...
... idea of the trinity in unity , which is a doctrine recognized as far back amongst all nations as history will carry us , was originally founded solely upon the well - known fact that the characteristic of the male is a triad , of which ...
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... ideas , sexual emblems , and Pagan festivals , with many of the licentious practices associated therewith , have been handed down from a remote idolatry to a modern and compara- tively enlightened Christianity . The symbols of the objec ...
... ideas , sexual emblems , and Pagan festivals , with many of the licentious practices associated therewith , have been handed down from a remote idolatry to a modern and compara- tively enlightened Christianity . The symbols of the objec ...
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