The Bridge of History Over the Gulf of Time, a Popular View of the Historical Evidence for the Truth of Christianity (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... the bridge oe history over the gulf of time, &c. there seems to be one question which every one has a right to ask the man who says that Christianity is not true. And the question is this: If Christianity be not true, where did it come from?--how came it into the world? You say, Christianity is not true. Then, what is it, if it be not true? What is its origin? how comes it to be here, in this land, and in other lands, at this present time? The question that we ask is not a light, frivolous one. This Christianity is understood to be the professed religion of 335 millions of the human race, now dwelling on this globe. They are not savages: they are not nations bearing a stereotyped resemblance of civilization. They are the noblest peoples on the face of the earth: the nations that have the highest science, arts, power, and culture ever yet attained by man. How comes it that these nations 2 two sceptical theories. profess the Christian religion? and how came Christianity into the world? Where did it come from? as we asked at first. There are but Two Theories that can make any pretension to be considered formidable which have been put forth as answers to this question. The old theory, so well known as the "Sun Theory"; and the later one, which has been called the "Mythical Theory." Let us look at the older theory first. The "Sun Theory" is understood to owe its fatherhood, as a complete hypothesis, to the notable Sir William Drummond, who presented it to the restricted circle of critical enquirers, in his "(Edipus Judaicus." Godfrey Higgins, of Skellow Grange, near Doncaster, laboured more than twenty years, he assures us, in the compila