An Apology for the Bible: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a Book Entitled The Age of Reason, Part the Second, Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous TheologyMessrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. Jones, J. Rice, H. Fitzpatrick, N. Kelly, and G. Folingsby, 1796 - Bible - 146 pages |
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... christianity , by opposing to the miracles of our Saviour , the tricks of ancient impoftors , feems to have originated with Hierocles in the fourth century ; and it has been adopted by unbelievers from that time to this ; with this ...
... christianity , by opposing to the miracles of our Saviour , the tricks of ancient impoftors , feems to have originated with Hierocles in the fourth century ; and it has been adopted by unbelievers from that time to this ; with this ...
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... christianity to be true ; hence they have fabricated a kind of deiftical axiom - that no human teftimony can establish the credibility of a miracle . - This , though it has been an hundred times refuted , is still infifted upon , as if ...
... christianity to be true ; hence they have fabricated a kind of deiftical axiom - that no human teftimony can establish the credibility of a miracle . - This , though it has been an hundred times refuted , is still infifted upon , as if ...
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... christian yourself ; you will fee caufe to confider chronological , geographical , or genealogical errors - apparent mistakes or real con- tradictions as to hiftorical facts - needlefs repetitions and trifling interpolations - indeed ...
... christian yourself ; you will fee caufe to confider chronological , geographical , or genealogical errors - apparent mistakes or real con- tradictions as to hiftorical facts - needlefs repetitions and trifling interpolations - indeed ...
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... Christ ; but then you fay , " Thofe accounts are nothing to us , nor to any other perfons , unless it be to the jews , as a part of the hiftory of their nation ; and there is just as much of the Word of God in those . books , as there ...
... Christ ; but then you fay , " Thofe accounts are nothing to us , nor to any other perfons , unless it be to the jews , as a part of the hiftory of their nation ; and there is just as much of the Word of God in those . books , as there ...
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... christianity . As to your faying , that the interpre- tations which commentators and priests have made of thefe books , only fhew the fraud , or the extreme folly , to which credulity and prieftcraft can go , I confider it as nothing ...
... christianity . As to your faying , that the interpre- tations which commentators and priests have made of thefe books , only fhew the fraud , or the extreme folly , to which credulity and prieftcraft can go , I confider it as nothing ...
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Page 112 - Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Page 106 - Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him; and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Page 83 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 95 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 107 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Page 18 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people : and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Page 99 - It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. 11. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Page 70 - And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
Page 18 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 13 - A genuine book is that which was written by the person whose name it bears, as the author of it. An authentic book is that which relates matters of fact, as they really happened. A book may be genuine without being authentic ; and a book may be authentic, without being genuine.