Studies in the Christian EvidencesT. & T. Clark, 1889 - 396 pages |
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... prove them to be impossible - Intelligent Voluntary Action has in it the essential elements of a Miracle - We cannot explain the Mode - Miracles not Incredible - Hume's - Argument from ' Experience ' discussed - Does any xii CONTENTS .
... prove them to be impossible - Intelligent Voluntary Action has in it the essential elements of a Miracle - We cannot explain the Mode - Miracles not Incredible - Hume's - Argument from ' Experience ' discussed - Does any xii CONTENTS .
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Alexander Mair. - Argument from ' Experience ' discussed - Does any one really believe in the Christian Miracles ? -Kind of Evidence to be expected Renan's Conditions of a satisfactory Miracle— Christ's Miracles interwoven with the ...
Alexander Mair. - Argument from ' Experience ' discussed - Does any one really believe in the Christian Miracles ? -Kind of Evidence to be expected Renan's Conditions of a satisfactory Miracle— Christ's Miracles interwoven with the ...
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... Experience , XIX . The Independence and Convergence of the Christian Evidences , XX . Statistics bearing on the Alleged Decline of Morality in XXI . The Sadness of Atheism , INDEX , XIV . The Theory of Probabilities applied to the ...
... Experience , XIX . The Independence and Convergence of the Christian Evidences , XX . Statistics bearing on the Alleged Decline of Morality in XXI . The Sadness of Atheism , INDEX , XIV . The Theory of Probabilities applied to the ...
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... experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea , which at once awes our feelings and stimulates our imagination by its vastness and obscurity . To add to the mystery , the domain of our earthly existence is not only an ...
... experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea , which at once awes our feelings and stimulates our imagination by its vastness and obscurity . To add to the mystery , the domain of our earthly existence is not only an ...
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... God , and if a son then an heir ; ' an heir of God and a joint - heir with Christ . ' And as he comes to know the reality of Jesus and His truth in the experience of daily life , he will soon be able THE UNQUESTIONED EPISTLES OF PAUL . 135.
... God , and if a son then an heir ; ' an heir of God and a joint - heir with Christ . ' And as he comes to know the reality of Jesus and His truth in the experience of daily life , he will soon be able THE UNQUESTIONED EPISTLES OF PAUL . 135.
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Page 144 - And his disciples asked him, saying : " Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind ? " Jesus answered : " Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents : but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Page 114 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Page 117 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 117 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren...
Page 180 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 282 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Page 251 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 283 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations : and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 171 - I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.
Page 373 - When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity...