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... possessing superior authority . James Freeman Clarke's celebrated work , " Ten Great Religions of the World , " impresses the mind with the preva- lence of religious belief ; while Alexander Win- chell enumerates twelve great systems ...
... possessing superior authority . James Freeman Clarke's celebrated work , " Ten Great Religions of the World , " impresses the mind with the preva- lence of religious belief ; while Alexander Win- chell enumerates twelve great systems ...
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... possessed of great power . This is the anthropomorphic stage , and the result is a higher religious standard . However , sinful man in conceiving the gods to exist in the likeness of men naturally transfers to the gods his own evil ...
... possessed of great power . This is the anthropomorphic stage , and the result is a higher religious standard . However , sinful man in conceiving the gods to exist in the likeness of men naturally transfers to the gods his own evil ...
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... possessed tremendous abilities and conquered the world ; yet he was a moral de- generate , and he died at the age of thirty - two of a fever resulting from his drunken revelries . Nero a pupil of Seneca , but a more abandoned profligate ...
... possessed tremendous abilities and conquered the world ; yet he was a moral de- generate , and he died at the age of thirty - two of a fever resulting from his drunken revelries . Nero a pupil of Seneca , but a more abandoned profligate ...
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... possessed one thousand of these prostitutes . Such a thing in Corinth as 1 Samuel Smith , Credibility of the Christian Re- ligion , pp . 19 , 20 . female virtue was scarcely known . Solon , the ven- CHRISTIANITY . 87.
... possessed one thousand of these prostitutes . Such a thing in Corinth as 1 Samuel Smith , Credibility of the Christian Re- ligion , pp . 19 , 20 . female virtue was scarcely known . Solon , the ven- CHRISTIANITY . 87.
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... possessed no exalted idea of God himself , and it is highly probable that they re- garded him merely as a tribal or national God . The idea that " Jehovah is the God of Israel , " and " Israel is his people , " was the center of their ...
... possessed no exalted idea of God himself , and it is highly probable that they re- garded him merely as a tribal or national God . The idea that " Jehovah is the God of Israel , " and " Israel is his people , " was the center of their ...
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Page 112 - For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Page 220 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron...
Page 138 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 340 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 123 - And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name?
Page 51 - Which thing I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, 1 gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Page 197 - One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord ; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.
Page 145 - And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, "The ark of the covenant of the Lord:" neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
Page 290 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 223 - Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.