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... Christianity be a reasonable creed or not obviously depends on whether or not certain beliefs regarding God are reasonable . If there be no God , if there be more Gods than one , if God be not the Creator and Upholder of the world and ...
... Christianity be a reasonable creed or not obviously depends on whether or not certain beliefs regarding God are reasonable . If there be no God , if there be more Gods than one , if God be not the Creator and Upholder of the world and ...
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... Christian beliefs , these questions , What evidence is there for God's existence ? and , What is known of His nature ? are of primary importance . The answers given to them must determine whether religion and Christianity ought to be ...
... Christian beliefs , these questions , What evidence is there for God's existence ? and , What is known of His nature ? are of primary importance . The answers given to them must determine whether religion and Christianity ought to be ...
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... Christian , and the Mohammedan . They are connected historically in the closest manner - the idea of God having been ... Christianity , who reject all reve- lation , is the God of Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob . From these ancient Jewish ...
... Christian , and the Mohammedan . They are connected historically in the closest manner - the idea of God having been ... Christianity , who reject all reve- lation , is the God of Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob . From these ancient Jewish ...
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... Christian , or a Magian . " The view is , how- ever , not a true one . A child is born , not into the religion of nature , but into blank ignorance ; and , left entirely to itself , it would probably never find out as much religious ...
... Christian , or a Magian . " The view is , how- ever , not a true one . A child is born , not into the religion of nature , but into blank ignorance ; and , left entirely to itself , it would probably never find out as much religious ...
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... Christianity , —that natural religion has had no real existence prior to or apart from what has claimed to be revealed religion— and that the independence which it now assumes is that of one who has grown ashamed of his origin . X It ...
... Christianity , —that natural religion has had no real existence prior to or apart from what has claimed to be revealed religion— and that the independence which it now assumes is that of one who has grown ashamed of his origin . X It ...
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