Category: History - Religious
THE Eliminator has now been before the public nearly two years. I have seen nothing worthy of the name of criticism respecting it. A few Unitarian ministers have said that Christ must have been a person instead of a personification, for the reason that men could not have conce...
IN early times every prominent religious teacher had his own gospel, as Paul asserts that he had his. The books that were canonized did not by any means shape the belief of the...
4. CHAPTER III. THE FABULOUS CLAIMS OF JUDAISMIT is impossible to understand modern Christian ecclesiasticism without a careful study of ancient Judaism. It is reported that Jesus himself said, “_Salvation is of the Jews._”...
16. CHAPTER XV. BLOOD-SALVATION_“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without the shedding of blood there is no remission.”—Heb. 9: 22. “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us f...
12. CHAPTER XI. THE IDEAL CHRISTNEARLY a quarter of a century ago (1868) a very remarkable pamphlet was published by request of the Free Religious Association, written by that remarkable man, the Rev. Samuel J...
14. CHAPTER XIII. A REVERENT CRITIQUE ON JESUSWE say “reverent” out of pure regard to the feelings of multitudes of devout persons who verily believe that Jesus was and is God, and so any criticism of him is simply blasphem...
17. CHAPTER XVI. THINGS THAT REMAINWe have shown that the Jews are not the very ancient and numerous people that they have been supposed to have been, and that many of their claims are purely fabulous; and that t...
5. CHAPTER IV. MOSES AND THE PENTATEUCHTHE first five books of the Old Testament, supposed by many to have been written by Moses, are called the Pentateuch. In the early chapters of Genesis, in the “Authorized Versio...
8. CHAPTER VII. THE FABLE OF THE FALLTHE prevailing belief of Christendom to-day is, that about six thousand years ago, somewhere in Asia, the Supreme Creator took common clay and moulded it into the form of a man,...
3. CHAPTER II. SACERDOTALISM IMPEACHEDAs far back as history extends, the office or order now represented by the clerical profession existed. It was as common among pagan tribes in the remotest periods as among Jews...
15. CHAPTER XIV. A FEW FRAGMENTSSINCE preparing Chapter XI., on _The Ideal Christ_, and quoting freely from Mr. Gerald Massey regarding the Gnostics, some doubts have been suggested as to the soundness of his...
6. CHAPTER V. ANCIENT SYMBOLISM AND MODERN LITERALISMWORSHIP is natural to man, and all systems of religion, many think, received their cult from Nature-worship. Typology, mythology, theology followed each other as the links of a...
7. CHAPTER VI. ASTRAL KEYS TO BIBLE STORIESIT is the carefully-formed conclusion of many independent thinkers that there is very little real history or biography in the Old-Testament Scriptures. It is a monstrous mistake...
9. CHAPTER VIII. SEARCH FOR THE “LAST ADAMTHE claim of sacerdotalism is substantially as follows: Adam was the first man and the sole progenitor of the entire human race. When he fell, all his progeny “sinned in him and...
13. CHAPTER XII. JESUS AND OTHER CHRISTSTHAT there should be held so many different views concerning the character and work of Christ is itself a very suggestive circumstance. It implies that the evidence in the case...
10. CHAPTER IX. WHAT IS KNOWN OF THE NEW TESTAMENTWE of course use the above passage as a motto, as the writer must have referred to the Old-Testament Scriptures, as the New Testament was not yet in existence. As this book is t...
2. CHAPTER I. THE WHOLE TRUTH_“For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, neither hid that shall not be known. Therefore, whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness, shall be heard in the light, an...
1. CHAPTER XVI. THINGS THAT REMAINTHE Eliminator has now been before the public nearly two years. I have seen nothing worthy of the name of criticism respecting it. A few Unitarian ministers have said that Chris...