5. Was it duly reported and verified then and there?
6. The book that relates the dream is anonymous and does not appear in history until A. D. 180–182.
7. The writers of the other three gospels know nothing of this dream.
8. There is no evidence that the writer of the first gospel ever personally knew Mary.
9. Luke ([1 : 30]) says that it was to Mary that the angel of the Lord appeared.
10. Only a dream! The corner-stone of Christianity rests upon a dream! Take away this dream and Christianity has nothing left.
THE GOLDEN RULE.
The moral teachings of the Bible are not original. Back of the pyramids in pre-historic times mothers taught their children to be kind to each other. Not from heaven but out of the human heart came the golden rule. A mother’s love was sufficient to reveal this best rule of life. Human inspiration is the only inspiration needed to call forth the expression—“Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you.”
Sixty years before the Christian era, Hellel, a Jewish rabbi wrote: “Do not do to others, what you would not like others to do to you.”