CONTENTS
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| CHAPTER I | |
| Losing God, or the Honest Atheist | [1] |
| This chapter is a case study showing how false experiencesof religion and erroneous conceptions of Godmay result in agnosticism or atheism. | |
CHAPTER II | |
| How Science Saves Religion, or Modern Knowledge and Religion | [39] |
| Introduction | [39] |
| 1. What is God? | [43] |
| 2. Who is God? | [48] |
| 3. Where is God? | [53] |
| 4. What does God do? | [62] |
| 5. If the Ancients made their gods, how do we know that we are not making our God? | [71] |
| 6. May we not be communing with a mere idea? | [73] |
CHAPTER III | |
| Does Man Have a Soul, and What Is His Place in the Universe? | [75] |
| 1. What is man? | [75] |
| 2. Who is man? | [77] |
| 3. Would the absence of man cripple God? | [84] |
| 4. What could an infinite God care for such a little speck? | [87] |
| 5. Is not socialism the best religion there is? | [90] |
CHAPTER IV | |
| Does God Have a Body, and Could He Become a Man? | [104] |
| 1. Introductory statement | [104] |
| 2. The idea of the Trinity and how it came about | [106] |
| 3. Was Jesus God or a good man only? | [113] |
| 4. Can modern psychology any longer believe in the Deity of Jesus? | [116] |
| 5. Where does Jesus belong in the religious, social and thought worlds? | [132] |
| 6. Can God die? | [135] |
CHAPTER V | |
| Losing the Sense of Immortality | [142] |
| A general statement | [142] |
| 1. The contagion of doubt | [144] |
| 2. The inability to make a religious use of modern knowledge | [146] |
| 3. The loss of a satisfying conception of the future life | [147] |
| 4. The growing habit of classifying the future with things unknown and unknowable | [148] |
| 5. An inadequate conception of the kingdom of God | [150] |
| 6. We automatically lose the assurance of the future when we lose the reality of the present | [153] |
CHAPTER VI | |
| Finding the Sense of Immortality | [157] |
| How shall we find the assurance of immortality? | [157] |
| 1. We automatically find the assurance of the futurewhen we find the reality of the present | [157] |
| Some reasons why the quest for reality is not morefrequently and earnestly undertaken. | |
| a. The moral failure of Christians | [158] |
| b. Because the average Christian cannot answertechnical questions | [159] |
| c. Antiquated forms irritating to sceptics | [162] |
| d. The provincialism of sceptics | [164] |
| 2. Equal striving for spiritual and material things is necessary | [166] |
| 3. The final step in the effort to know God | [173] |
| 4. Conscious of the existence of God, we become certain of immortality | [176] |
CHAPTER VII | |
| What Difference Does It Make Whether We Believein Immortality if We Live as We Should in This Life? | [182] |
| 1. How can one live as he should? | [182] |
| 2. The difference in social service | [183] |
| 3. The difference in personal preparation | [186] |
CHAPTER VIII | |
| How Shall We Conceive of the Future Life? | [193] |
| 1. Its relation to the present constitution of things | [193] |
| 2. Where is heaven? | [196] |
| 3. Will there be a Holy City? | [198] |
| 4. Will there be music? | [201] |
| 5. Shall we meet our loved ones? | [201] |
| 6. Shall we see God? | [204] |
| 7. Will there be burdens to bear in heaven? | [205] |
CHAPTER IX | |
| Losing the Bible to Find It | [207] |
| If the Bible contains errors, how do we know that any of it is true? | [207] |
| A general statement | [207] |
| The Method of Finding God's Word | |
| 1. The story of Creation | [212] |
| 2. The story of the Garden | [220] |
| 3. The Bible stories in general | [223] |
| 4. The laws of Israel—moral and ceremonial | [224] |
| 5. The Book of Job | [226] |
CHAPTER X | |
| Losing the Bible to Find It (Continued) | [232] |
| The method of finding God's Word (Continued) | |
| 1. The Psalms | [232] |
| 2. The prophets in general | [235] |
| 3. Jonah | [241] |
| 4. The New Testament in general | [247] |
| 5. The Book of Revelation | [250] |