A handbook of Freethought : $b containing in condensed and systematized form a vast amount of evidence against the superstitious doctrines of Christianity
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A handbook of Freethought : $b containing in condensed and systematized form a vast amount of evidence against the superstitious doctrines of Christianity
Christianity -- Controversial literature; Free thought
Whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven,
thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If
I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall
hold me. (Ps. 139 : 7-10.)
There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity
may hide themselves. For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he
seeth all his goings. (Job 34 : 22, 21.)
God is Not Omnipresent, Neither Sees nor Knows all Things.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower. (Gen. 11 : 5.)
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great,
and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now and see
whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which
is come unto me; and, if not, I will know. (Gen. 18 : 20, 21.)
And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God,
amongst the trees of the garden. (Gen. 3 : 8.)
God Knows the Hearts of Men.
Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men. (Acts 1 : 24.)
Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest
my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down,
and art acquainted with all my ways. (Ps. 139 : 2, 3.)
For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. (Ps. 44 : 21.)
God Tries Men to Find Out what is in their Hearts.
The Lord, your God, proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord
your God, with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deut. 13 : 3.)
The Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to
humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart. (Deut.
8 : 2.)
For now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld
thy son, thine only son, from me. (Gen. 22 : 12.)
God is All-Powerful.
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there anything too
hard for me?... There is nothing too hard for thee. (Jer. 32 : 27, 17.)
With God all things are possible. (Mat. 19 : 26.)
God is Not All-Powerful.
And the Lord was with Judah, and he drave out the inhabitants of
the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley,
because they had chariots of iron. (Judges 1 : 19.)
God is Unchangeable.
With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (James
1 : 17.)
For I am the Lord; I change not. (Mal. 3 : 6.)
I, the Lord, have spoken it; it shall come to pass, and I will do it. I
will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent. (Ezekiel
24 : 14.)
God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he
should repent. (Num. 23 : 19.)
God is Changeable.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him at his heart. (Gen. 6 : 6.)
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and
God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them,
and he did it not. (Jonah 3 : 10.)
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