The nations of the earth are indebted to the Jews for the Bible.--Taylor's assertion, that no such nation as the Jewish ever existed. Its confutation. The Jews and Christians hold the Old Testament to be a revelation from God. Infidels hold this to be untrue. How the question at issue is to be settled. The frame of mind necessary to an impartial examination of the subject.--Objections of the Atheistical Infidel against the claims of the Bible as a divine revelation. Mr. Olmsted's misrepresentation of the position of the advocates of Revelation. The questions at issue between the Christian and Atheist. That between the Christian and the Deist 1 SECTION I.--Confutation of the theory of the materialist. Confutations of the positions of the two classes of Atheists 6 SECTION II.--Hume's argument to prove that Polytheism was the first religion of mankind. Its confutation 23 SECTION III.--Of the style of the Old Testament Scriptures. Example from Mr. Olmsted, showing the necessity of understanding its nature. The Scriptures speak the language of appearances, but strictly philosophical 40 CHAPTER II Mr. Olmsted's assertion concerning the requisitions of the advocate of Revelation in examining the credibility of the Mosaic writings. Its falsehood. His allegation that the first sentence in the Bible contains a falsehood. The confutation of his argument. His objection to the credibility of the Mosaic narrative of the creation founded on the statement that the world was made in six days. Vindication of the Mosaic narrative.--Infidel objection to the Mosaic narrative founded on the zodiacs in the temples of Latapolis and Tantyra. Its fallacy.--Dr. Keith's proofs of the truthfulness of the Mosaic narrative of the creation 48 SECTION I.--Mosaic account of the creation confirmed by tradition. The Hindoo account; that of Ovid; the Phenician; the Egyptian; that of Plato.--The heathen tradition concerning the first man. Division of time into weeks, a confirmation of the Mosaic narrative 75