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PREFACE.

CREATION.

The Difference Between the Two Cosmogonies as Given in the First Two Chapters of Genesis.

Evidence of the Vast Age of the Universe.

PROPHECY.

MIRACLES.

David Hume’s Argument on Miracles.

Some Extra Miracles.

The Great Quail Story.

A Suit of Clothes Lasting Forty Years, and even then Not Old.

Lot’s Wife turned into a Pillar of Salt.

Cattle which were Killed Several Times After they were Dead.

People Get Up in the morning Dead.

Elisha Returns to Life.

HEAVEN.

Elijah Went to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire.

Deluge.

The Ass and the Calf.

JESUS CHRIST.

The Genealogy of Jesus.

When was Jesus Born?

Christianity Rests Upon a Dream.

THE GOLDEN RULE.

Jesus an Essene.

Jesus’ Teachings Not up to the Moral Standard of To-day.

Jesus Exhibits an Imperfect Sense of Justice.

Jesus Teaches the Duty of Submission to Wrong.

Immoral Teachings of Jesus.

Bitter and Unreasonable Denunciations of Jesus.

Jesus a False Prophet.

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree.

Contemporaneous Historians are Silent Concerning the Resurrection of Jesus.

The Resurrection of Jesus.

Jesus Foretells his Resurrection.

None of the Disciples Looking for a Resurrection.

The Evidence of Paul on the Resurrection of Jesus.

CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT HISTORICAL BASIS.

The Canon.

The Value of Papias’ Testimony.

Ignorance and Dishonesty of the Early Fathers.

Jesus Not a Historical Character.

The Spurious Passage in Josephus.

Spurious Writings of the Early Church.

The Bible Not an Inspired Revelation.

The Pentateuch.

The Bible Not Inspired.

God’s Ways are Not Our Ways.

SELF-CONTRADICTIONS OF THE BIBLE.

THEOLOGICAL DOCTRINES.

MORAL PRECEPTS.

HISTORICAL FACTS.

SPECULATIVE DOCTRINES.

THE DEVIL.

IMMORTALITY.

DESIGN ARGUMENT.

Providence.

First Cause.

THE SUNDAY QUESTION.

The Days of the Week.

One Day in Seven?

The Edict of Constantine.

Sabbath Engenders Cruelty.

The Puritans.

Sunday Should be Regarded as a day of Rest and Recreation.

Unconstitutionality of Sunday Laws.

Ben. Franklin on Connecticut Sundays.

A Common Sense View of the Sunday Question.

Everybody’s Sunday.

WHAT IS CIVILIZATION?

Industrial Influences.

Skepticism.

Science.

Metaphysical Method.

RECAPITULATION.

Some things Christianity has Not Done.

The Conflict between Christianity and Civilization.

The Bible Sanctions Great Crimes.

The Reformation.

Christianity Teaches Immorality.

Prayer is Immoral.

Other Worldliness.

Christianity is Intolerant.

The Church Opposed to Progress.

PROTESTANT PERSECUTIONS.

THE PURITANS INTOLERANT.

Galileo.

Bruno.

Torture.

The New Testament Teaches Intolerance.

The Inquisition in Spain, 1568.

The Inquisition.

The Church Opposed to Liberty.

The Bible Opposed to Liberty.

SECULARISM.

Popular Questions and Objections.

Orthodoxy and Liberalism Compared.

Infidelity.

The Objects of Orthodoxy and Liberalism.

CHRISTIANITY AND MATERIALISM COMPARED.

“Safest to Believe.”

The “Safe Side.”

Popular Objections to Infidelity Answered, Showing Some Mistakes of Christians.

“All Owing to the Bible.”

THE BIBLE ON TEMPERANCE.

The Inconsistency of Agnosticism.

God Responsible for the Ills Man Suffers.

The Idea of God Must Go.

Atheism.

Jehovah a Failure.

A MINORITY NOT A SECT.

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