Answers to Ever-Recurring Questions from the People (Volume 49; V. 435); (A Sequel to the Penetralia) (Paperback)

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: large enough nor good enough to see the finger of God (or Good and Wisdom) in everything everywhere. But the poet Bailey, the author of Festus, obtained a glorious glimpse of the ultimate conception, thus? Time there hath been when only God was All, And it shall be again. The hour is nam'd When seraph, cherub, angel, saint, man, fiend, Made pure, and unbelievably uplift Above their present state, drawn up to God Like dew into the air, shall All be heav'n; All soids shall be in God, and shall be Godj And nothing but God be. The Bible the Antidote of Atheism. LXXXIV.?Question: A few days since I heard a preacher say that without the Bible the world would have no knowledge of God, of a future life, or of any duties we owe to ourselves, to each other, or to God. What do you think of this statement? Answer: We think it is a false statement, showing the preacher's ignorance of human history, and that he is teaching a dangerous theory, destitute of fact. Bibles are books of recent origin. Printing is a recent invention. On the other hand, the human race is (according to the Chinese record) almost forty thousand years old. The pyramids and other works of former ages demonstrate the history of mankind to extend far behind the 6,000 years fixed by the Mosaic record. But bibles and books of poetry are not half so old. Hence the time was when men received impressions concerning God, the Future, and Duty, independently of books and religious teachers. Mankind have from the earliest ages believed in and worshiped God. Atheism was not much known until popular theology began to be promulgated in oriental lands, some two thousand years ago. The doctrine of a future life is thousands of years older than anybody's religious book. Souls are inspired to day as they were before books...