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Conflict of the Nineteenth Century---The Bible and Free Thought
Conflict of the Nineteenth CenturyThe Bible and Free Thought Author:Thomas Mitchell Subtitle: Ingersoll's Lecture on the Gods Dissected, Its Charges a Combine of Misconception and Reckless Assertion; Biblical Religion the Exact Counterpart Demanded by the Mental, Moral, Social, and Physical Nature of Man; Man for God, and God for Man General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: Uni... more »versal Book Company Subjects: Bible Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Revealed Religion founded upon a Philosophic Basis. Founded upon these facts and principles of nature, man being its chiefest work, is the philosophy as well, as the highest science of revealed religion ; not an element of which can be left out, without weakening the motives for the elevation of man, as an intellectual, moral, social, and religious being ; and he is no more one of these than he is every other. It is within the structure and functions of these fundamental truths that the enthronement of reason is to be found, not a substitute for God, but an emanation of his ordained and revealed plan for the creation and re-creation of man as an inhabitant of his eternal world. In view of which we have such instructions as the following: " I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. " (Rom. 12: 1.) " Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear." (1 Pet. 3: 15.) "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isa. 1 : 18.) Thus does God appeal to man as a reasoning being,...« less