Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...considering the value of the historic I view of the Old Testament, it destroys the belief that God his spoken to the world once and speaks no more. It removes many moral and scientific difficulties.- such as are to be found in reading of the calling of children to be slathered and inconsistencies about the creation. It shows us that the writers were as we are-perhaps more devoted to their principles, but moved by the same passions. It frees the religious soul from bear, because it shows that safety and happiness lie in the present performance of duty...
...second, the strange discrepancies, most noticeable in the absence of great warriors, of commerce, art, and philosophy, and of any intercourse between Israel and the other nations. On the other hand the Hebrews had the consciousness of a high mission and were pre-eminent in religion. They originated the belief of monotheism and all their great men were religious prophets and teachers. Without Hebrew history we should not have Christianity...
...said Dr. Abbott, a personal God, an infinite being who thinks and feels, a being who has made man in his own image, able to communicate himself to man and to effect his life. Through the ministration of divine spirit, truth may be revealed. It is the generally church belief that the Bible is the real inspired revelation of God. The book is a dead thing and cannot be inspired; the writers were inspired, and, being quickened by the spirit of God, truth was flashed over their vision and so, through their utterance, it has been revealed...
...Christ asks the disciples if they will leave him and Peter asks whither they should turn if they did. Before a man turns aside from the Christian religion let him seek out carefully what those who are tempting him away have to offer that will compensate for the precious belief he already holds. He will find that worship of man himself, disbelief of all forgiveness, of reward of virtue and punishment of vice, of soul, of future life, of Heaven, and of Divinity are the tenets of the unbelievers; that this creed and the blackness of an eternal grave...
...respect the honest opinions of all men, leads us to ask if it would not be best to add to the list of our University preachers a representative of the Roman Catholic creed. In suggesting this we wish to make prominent that it is not because of his peculiar belief that we propose this addition, but because, if such a man comes here as our regular preachers do come, in the desire to help, and not to advocate certain doctrines, the fact will have great atrength in our effort to induce freedom of thought...