Do not be frightened from this enquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it ends in a belief that there is no god, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its’ exercise, and the love of others which it will procure you. If you find reason to […]
Bible Quotes
Remember that millions of Christians still base their belief in a God upon the words of the Bible, which is a collection of the most flabbergasting fictions ever imagined – by men, too, who had lawless but very poor and crude imagination. Ingersoll and numerous other critics have shot the Christian holy book full of […]
Did these words come from the heart of love? — “When the Lord thy God shall drive them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, or show mercy unto them.” “I will heap mischief upon them. I will send mine arrows upon them; they shall […]
No one has an idea really of where we should draw the line. What about the Bible? It is between fifty and sixty years since I read the Apocalypse, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac.
Standardization of texts wasn’t a high priority in the early years of printing. Spelling showed considerable variety, and punctuation and grammar weren’t much more consistent. Copies of the “same” edition were rarely identical. There are no two identical copies of the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s works (of which probably a thousand “copies” were printed […]
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
Be assiduous in reading the Holy Scriptures. This is the fountain whence all knowledge in divinity must be derived. Therefore let not this treasure lie by you neglected.
If one who lights a lamp before himself in broad daylight seems strange, then how much stranger is one who remains in the shadow of the law of the Old Testament when the Gospel is being preached.
I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about such things, and inquire from the Holy Scriptures all these things.
Conversation between God and mankind in this world, is maintained by God’s Word on his part, and by prayer on ours. By the former, he speaks and expresses his mind to us; by the latter, we speak and express our minds to him. Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly […]
