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
Why died not I from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I
came out of the belly?... For now should I have lain still and been
quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest, with kings and
counselors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
or as a hidden, untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never
saw the light. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the
weary be at rest.... The small and great are there, and the servant
is free from his master. Wherefore is light given to him that is
in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul, which long for death,
but it cometh not, ... which rejoice exceedingly and are glad, when
they can find the grave? (Job. 3 : 11, 13-17, 19-22.)
The dead know not anything.... For there is no work, nor device,
nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest. (Eccl. 9 :
5, 10.)
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth the beasts, even
one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea,
they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above
a beast.... All go unto one place. (Eccl. 3 : 19, 20.)
Endless Misery the Portion of a Part of Mankind.
These shall go away into everlasting punishment. (Mat. 25 : 46.)
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and
brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be
tormented day and night for ever and ever.... And whosoever was
not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of
fire. (Rev. 20 : 10, 15.)
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever. (Rev.
14 : 11.)
And many of them that sleep in the dust shall awake, some to
everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan.
12 : 2.)
The Earth is to be Destroyed.
The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (2
Peter 3 : 10.)
They shall perish, but thou remainest. (Heb. 1 : 11.)
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose
face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was no place found
for them. (Rev. 20 : 11.)
The Earth is Never to be Destroyed.
Who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed
forever. (Ps. 104 : 5.)
But the earth abideth forever. (Eccl. 1 : 4.)
No Evil Shall Happen to the Godly.
There shall no evil happen to the just. (Prov. 12 : 21.)
Who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is
good? (1 Peter 3 : 13.)
Evil Does Happen to the Godly.
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he
receiveth. (Heb. 12 : 6.)
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant, Job,
that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright
man?... So went Satan forth ... and smote Job with sore boils from
the sole of his foot unto his crown. (Job 2 : 3, 7.)
Worldly Good and Prosperity the Lot of the Godly.
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