The History of Moses and the Israelites (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE CREATION; OB, THE ASSEVERATIONS OP MOSES CONTRADICTED BY KNOWN FACTS. Section 1. The Mosaic account of Creation is the standard of orthodoxy, on that question, throughout Jewry and Christendom. The dogmas of this account took rise away back in the night of time; and, they originated in the wild imaginings of the undeveloped rational faculties of some one of the unenlightened tribes of mankind, long anterior to the dawn of the light of Astronomy as now understood, and demonstrated, and before the science of Geology had made its revelations to man. That I may not appear too censorious and set down naught erroneously, I will extract a sentence from the orthodox records, so called, which set forth the how the material worlds were brought into being. The extract that I give is part and parcel of the expressed creed of the professedly Christian world, based on the Mosaic record which is believed to be divinely inspired. But to the promised extract: "The work of Creation is God's making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good." Sec. 2. That there was a time when all worlds, including the one that we inhabit, bad a beginning of formation, or, commenced to agglomerate; otherwise, when the conglomerate mass of which the worlds are composed, commenced to solidify, there cannot arise a doubt in any enlightened mind. All solidified matter, in its original condition, was in a state of fluidity, or gassy state, filling immensity, and in that state containing all the elementary principles, laws and forces that matter now contains. That matter was spoken into existence by the power of God's word the record is explicit, very; but at what particular moment in God's calendar he commenced the creation of ma...