CHAPTER I

The nations of the earth are indebted to the Jews for the Bible.--Taylor's assertion, that no such nation as the Jewish ever existed. Its confutation. The Jews and Christians hold the Old Testament to be a revelation from God. Infidels hold this to be untrue. How the question at issue is to be settled. The frame of mind necessary to an impartial examination of the subject.--Objections of the Atheistical Infidel against the claims of the Bible as a divine revelation. Mr. Olmsted's misrepresentation of the position of the advocates of Revelation. The questions at issue between the Christian and Atheist. That between the Christian and the Deist 1

SECTION I.--Confutation of the theory of the materialist. Confutations of the positions of the two classes of Atheists 6

SECTION II.--Hume's argument to prove that Polytheism was the first religion of mankind. Its confutation 23

SECTION III.--Of the style of the Old Testament Scriptures. Example from Mr. Olmsted, showing the necessity of understanding its nature. The Scriptures speak the language of appearances, but strictly philosophical 40