Bible of Bibles; Or Twenty-Seven Divine Revelations e-bog
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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Ditions and superstitions of the past, and grasp the living facts of the age. We everywhere see a disposition to abandon the defective institutions, political and religious, which were gotten up in the childhood ...
E-bog
583,01 DKK
Forlag
Forgotten Books
Udgivet
27 november 2019
Genrer
HRC
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780259699057
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Ditions and superstitions of the past, and grasp the living facts of the age. We everywhere see a disposition to abandon the defective institutions, political and religious, which were gotten up in the childhood of human experience, and supplant them with those better adapted to the wants of the age. In a word, there is everywhere manifested a disposition and determination to unshackle the human body, and set free the human mind, and place it with its living aspirations on the road to the temple of Truth. An evidence of the truth of these statements the reader can gather by casting his eyes abroad, or by reading the peri odicals of the day. At this very time nearly all the orthodox churches are in a state of commotion. The growing light and intelligence of the age, penetrating their dark creeds and dog mas, are producing a sort of moral effervescence. The question of hell is now the agitating theme of the churches. Pos terity will ridicule us, and class us with the unenlightened heathen, for discussing a question so far behind the times, and one so childish and SO absurd in this intelligent and enlightened age. To condescend to discuss such a question now must be hell enough for scientific and intelligent minds. And other important religious events mark the age. When the Roman Catholic Church, through its Ecumenical Council, dragged the Pope from his lofty throne of usurped power, and robbed him of his attribute of infallibility, it proclaimed the downfall of the Pope and the dea of the Church. Already thousands of his subjects refuse longer to bow down and kiss the big toe of his sacred majesty. His scepter has departed, his spiritual power is gone, his temporal power is waning. And the same spirit of agitation is operating as a leaven in the Protestant churches also. All the orthodox churches are declining and growing weaker by their members falling off. The Methodist Church has recently lost more than two hundred of its preachers and the Baptist Church, according