Christianity Demonstrated Author:Harvey Newcomb Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cession of Mohammed ; but the time they shall be confined there will not be less than 900 years, nor more than 7,000. The Mohammedan hell is corporeal, and the d... more »escription they give of the torments to be endured there, is too horrible to be repeated. Over this, they say there is placed a sharp bridge, as long as the world and as high in proportion, but not wider than a single thread of a spider's web ; and this overhung on both sides with briers and thorns. Over this all mankind must pass. The good Mohammedans will pass swifter than lightning. But the wicked, and those who do not believe in Mohammed, will slip and fall headlong into hell-fire. Their ideas of heaven are, that it is a place of sensual pleasure. It is painted out in the most extravagant colors which imagination could invent, but free from all the pain, distress and bitterness of soul, which follow the excessive indulgence of animal appetites and passions in this life. This is the religion of 120,000,000 of our race. It will be at once perceived that this is but a caricature of Christianity, leaving out those doctrines and facts which are essential to the system, and retaining only such as could be metamorphosed to suit the purposes of the Impostor. This system fails to meet the moral necessities of man, in several important particulars : 1. Its doctrine of rewards and punishments is founded on erroneous principles. It gives a mercantile character to the relations between man and his Creator ; as though we could bring God under obligation to us by our good works, while we become indebted to him by our evil deeds ; and thus set off the one against the other. Whereas God, by virtueof the claim he has upon us as our Creator, and as the Supreme Ruler of the universe, is justly entitled to perfect obedience from u...« less