TWENTY-SEVEN "DIVINE" REVELATIONS:

CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF TWENTY-SEVEN BIBLES, AND AN EXPOSITION OF TWO THOUSAND BIBLICAL ERRORS IN SCIENCE, HISTORY, MORALS, RELIGION, AND GENERAL EVENTS; ALSO A DELINEATION OF THE CHARACTERS OF THE PRINCIPAL PERSONAGES OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE, AND AN EXAMINATION OF THEIR DOCTRINES.

By Kersey Graves,

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Author Of "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors," "The Biography Of Satan."
Fourth Edition.
Boston:
Colby & Rich, Publishers, No. 9 Montgomery Place.
1879.

And by Lydia M. Graves,
Assistant Authoress.


CONTENTS

[ NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS FOR THE THIRD EDITION. ]

[ THE BIBLE OF BIBLES. ]

[ CHAPTER I.—THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. ]

[ CHAPTER II.—APOLOGY AND EXPLANATION. ]

[ CHAPTER III.—WHY THIS WORK WAS WRITTEN, ]

[ CHAPTER IV.—THE BEAUTIES AND BENEFITS OF BIBLES. ]

[ CHAPTER V.—TWENTY-SEVEN BIBLES DESCRIBED. ]

[ CHAPTER VI.—THE EGYPTIAN BIBLE. ]

[ CHAPTER VII.—THE PERSIAN BIBLES. ]

[ CHAPTER VIII.—CHINESE BIBLES. ]

[ CHAPTER IX.—BIBLES ]

[ CHAPTER X.—THE MAHOMEDAN BIBLE—THE KORAN. ]

[ CHAPTER XI.—THE JEWISH BIBLE. ]

[ CHAPTER XII.—THE CHRISTIANS' BIBLE. ]

[ CHAPTER XIII.—-GENERAL ANALOGIES OF BIBLES. ]

[ CHAPTER XIV.—THE INFIDELS' BIBLE. ]

[ CHAPTER XV.—TWO THOUSAND BIBLE ERRORS. OLD TESTAMENT DEPARTMENT. ]

[ CHAPTER XVI.—ABSURDITIES IN THE ARK AND FLOOD STORY. ]

[ CHAPTER XVII.—THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, MORAL DEFECTS OF. ]

[ CHAPTER XVIII.—FOOLISH BIBLE STORIES. ]

[ CHAPTER XIX.—BIBLE PROPHECIES NOT FULFILLED. ]

[ CHAPTER XX.—MIRACLES, ERRONEOUS BELIEF IN. ]

[ CHAPTER XXI.—ERRORS OF THE BIBLE IN FACTS AND FIGURES. ]

[ CHAPTER XXII.—BIBLE CONTRADICTIONS-TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN. ]

[ CHAPTER XXIII.—OBSCENE LANGUAGE OF THE BIBLE—TWO HUNDRED CASES. ]

[ CHAPTER XXIV.—CIRCUMCISION A HEATHEN CUSTOM. ]

[ CHAPTER XXV.—HOLY MOUNTAINS, LANDS, CITIES, AND RIVERS. ]

[ CHAPTER XXVI.—BIBLE CHARACTERS. ]

[ CHAPTER XXVII.—CHARACTER OF GOD'S "HOLY PEOPLE," THE JEWS. ]

[ CHAPTER XXVIII.—CHARACTER OF MOSES; MORAL DEFECTS OF. ]

[ CHAPTER XXIX.—CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM, MORAL DEFECTS OF. ]

[ CHAPTER XXX.—CHARACTER OF DAVID-HIS NUMEROUS CRIMES. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXI.—CHARACTER OF THE JEWISH PROPHETS. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXII.—PROGRESSIVE IDEAS OF DEITY. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXIII.—NEW-TESTAMENT ERRORS. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXIV.—PRIMEVAL INNOCENCY OF MAN NOT TRUE. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXV.—ORIGINAL SIN AND FALL OF MAN. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXVI.—THE MORAL DEPRAVITY OF MAN A DELUSION. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXVII.—FREE AGENCY AND MORAL ACCOUNTABILITY. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXVIII.—REPENTANCE,—THE DOCTRINE ERRONEOUS. ]

[ CHAPTER XXXIX.—FORGIVENESS FOR SIN, AN IMMORAL DOCTRINE. ]

[ CHAPTER XL.—CAN GOD BE SUBJECT TO ANGER? ]

[ CHAPTER XLI.—ATONEMENT FOR SIN, AN IMMORAL DOCTRINE. ]

[ CHAPTER XLII.—SPECIAL PROVIDENCE, AN ERRONEOUS DOCTRINE. ]

[ CHAPTER XLIII.—FAITH AND BELIEF, BIBLE ERRORS RESPECTING. ]

[ CHAPTER XLIV.—A PERSONAL GOD IMPOSSIBLE. ]

[ CHAPTER XLV.—EVIL, NATURAL AND MORAL, EXPLAINED. ]

[ CHAPTER XLVI.—TRUE SALVATION, OK THE RATIONAL VIEW OF SIN. ]

[ CHAPTER XLVII.—THE BIBLE SANCTIONS EVERY SPECIES OF CRIME. ]

[ CHAPTER XLVIII.—IMMORAL INFLUENCE OF THE BIBLE. ]

[ CHAPTER XLIX.—THE BIBLE AT WAR WITH EIGHTEEN SCIENCES. ]

[ CHAPTER L.—THE BIBLE AS A MORAL NECESSITY. ]

[ CHAPTER LI.—SEND NO MOKE BIBLES TO THE HEATHEN. ]

[ CHAPTER LII.—WHAT SHALL WE BELIEVE AND DO TO BE SAVED? ]

[ CHAPTER LIII.—THE THREE PLANS OF SALVATION. ]

[ CHAPTER LIV.—THE TRUE RELIGION. ]

[ CHAPTER LV.—"ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF GOD." ]

[ CHAPTER LVI.—INFIDELS UNDER THE ORIENTAL SYSTEMS, ]

[ CHAPTER LVII.—SECTS, SCHISMS, AND SKEPTICS IN CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES. ]

[ CHAPTER LVIII.—MODERN CHRISTIANITY ONE-HALF INFIDELITY. ]

[ CHAPTER LIX.—CHARACTER OF THE CHRISTIAN'S GOD. ]

[ CHAPTER LX.—ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ERRORS OF JESUS CHRIST. ]

[ CHAPTER LXI.—CHARACTER AND ERRONEOUS DOCTRINES OF THE APOSTLES. ]

[ CHAPTER LXII.—CHARACTER OF PAUL, AND HIS DOCTRINES. ]

[ CHAPTER LXIII.—IDOLATROUS VENERATION FOR BIBLES. ]

[ CHAPTER LXIV.—SPIRITUAL OR IMPLIED SENSE OF BIBLES. ]

[ CHAPTER LXV.—WHAT SHALL WE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE? ]

[ CHAPTER LXVI.—RELIGIOUS RECONSTRUCTION; OR, THE MORAL NECESSITY FOR A SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR RELIGION. ]

[ CONCLUSION.—SEVERAL IMPORTANT POINTS. ]