 So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity...  The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer]. - Page 92by Thomas Mortimer - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - 1922 - 674 lehte
...reasonable person without a " miracle; and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is con" scious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts...the principles of his understanding, and gives him a deter" mination to believe what is most contrary to custom and " experience. This miracle was not worked... | |
 | Alfred Edward Taylor - 1927 - 70 lehte
...religion. . . cannot be believed by any reasonable person " without a miracle, any one who does believe "is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,...subverts all the principles of his understanding," and the arguments against," miracles " must obviously fail when addressed to a person who has the actual... | |
 | Chapman Cohen - 1928 - 168 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity ; and whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. was not likely to excite grateful feelings in the mind... | |
 | R. Douglas Geivett, Gary R. Habermas - 1997 - 340 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. TWO NEO-HUMEAN ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE MIRACULOUS ANTONY... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 lehte
...religion. The truth of "the Christian Religion," in particular, is not rationally confirmable. "And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is contrary to custom and experience."91 THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN. Hume critically examines the... | |
 | Donald W. Livingston - 1998 - 470 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience" (EU, 131). Fideism is the only way Christianity can... | |
 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - 158 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. Hume's brilliant and dispassionate essay "Of Miracles"... | |
 | Daniel Brudney - 1998 - 460 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person."29 Hamann comments that "Hume may have said this with a mocking or a serious air: in any event... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - 1999 - 290 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience."01 Although Hume's words sound like - and surely were... | |
 | P.J. Bagley - 1999 - 312 lehte
...reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of...understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience (Enquiries, p. 131). Spinoza, of course, does not share... | |
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