The Bible Not Inspired.
1. The Bible is full of errors:
“In 1847, the American Bible Society appointed a committee of its members to prepare a standard edition of King James’s version, free from typographical errors. They prepared such an edition, correcting, as they stated, twenty-four thousand errors; but alarmed at the attacks made upon it, it was withdrawn; and the American Bible Society continues to this day to circulate for the word of God a book having in it twenty-four thousand acknowledged errors.” (“Common Sense Thoughts on the Bible,” Wm. Denton.)
2. The Bible sanctions cruelties. The wars of extermination waged by the Jews upon surrounding nations afford ample proof.
3. The Bible indorses immorality. It indorses war, slavery, polygamy, intemperance, and superstition.
4. The writers of the gospels do not claim to be inspired.
5. We do not know when, where, or by whom, either the gospels or the books supposed to be written by Moses, were composed.
6. Paul says: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God; but there is (1.) no definite meaning attached to the word inspiration. (2.) He does not refer to the gospels for they had no existence when he wrote.
7. Inspiration is not a success. There are a thousand different sects quarreling about the meaning of the “inspired scriptures.”