Rational Religion and Morals: Presenting Analysis of the Functions of Mind, Under the Operations and Directions of Reason: The First, Eliciting the Necessary, Rational, and Only Religion, Monotheism .. the Second, the Obvious Duties and Precautions of Society |
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... believe his doctrine if an angel from his heaven were to come with the proof . To all this the most valid answer can be at once returned , that my soul , my mind with its functions , has the deepest interest in all such . I have as deep ...
... believe his doctrine if an angel from his heaven were to come with the proof . To all this the most valid answer can be at once returned , that my soul , my mind with its functions , has the deepest interest in all such . I have as deep ...
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... believe , never will . All minds that are sane , believe in God with genuine faith . They thus prove them- selves rational beings . But the most outrageous action is to arrest the advance of mind by condemning all the rational codes of ...
... believe , never will . All minds that are sane , believe in God with genuine faith . They thus prove them- selves rational beings . But the most outrageous action is to arrest the advance of mind by condemning all the rational codes of ...
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... believe in some peculiar faith , are damned ! And yet they are to be saved by faith , honest or dishonest ? Faith they must have ! Was there ever such imposition on mind ? Is the world to believe in religion , but what is rational and ...
... believe in some peculiar faith , are damned ! And yet they are to be saved by faith , honest or dishonest ? Faith they must have ! Was there ever such imposition on mind ? Is the world to believe in religion , but what is rational and ...
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... believe the God of the universe is a perfect being , and we must not permit one single idea to invalidate it , as that invalidates our most perfect confidence in every respect in him . So perfect is he , that his central residence is ...
... believe the God of the universe is a perfect being , and we must not permit one single idea to invalidate it , as that invalidates our most perfect confidence in every respect in him . So perfect is he , that his central residence is ...
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... believe in more than one God ? We cannot possibly , and retain a rational mind . Why is that belief necessary for polytheism , when God , the God of nature , Creator of the universe , is all powerful , knowing , and existent , with all ...
... believe in more than one God ? We cannot possibly , and retain a rational mind . Why is that belief necessary for polytheism , when God , the God of nature , Creator of the universe , is all powerful , knowing , and existent , with all ...
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Page 472 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 285 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 480 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 486 - And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
Page 489 - And they saw the God of Israel : and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 477 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 500 - Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more...
Page 285 - Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
Page 488 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
Page 488 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.