Messianic Philosophy: An Historical and Critical Examination of the Evidence for the Existence, Death, Resurrection, Ascension, and Divinity of Jesus Christ (Classic Reprint)

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Have I an immortal soul, or does all end in death? The Daily Telegraph gave witness some time ago to the truth of our statement, in its long controversy, Do we believe And at the beginning of this twentieth century, there are thousands of honest souls in perplexity about it all, scores of learned sceptics whose cleverly written books make men despair of knowing the truth. Books are written to Show that God is only Force, or that He is the Unknowable, or that in Pantheism we can have our only know ledge of Him. We are told that human and anlmal souls are only Life, and that Life is but a phenomenon of matter under certain conditions, vanishing when those conditions cease. We read that moral obligations are not of Divine sanction, but only arise from the need of order between man and man. Religion, say they, is but a poetic phase of man's existence, based on nothing better than dead hero worship, or the cult of Nature in its many forms. The countless learned treatises which appear to-day, and are in everybody's hands, would claim to prove convincingly that it is waste of time to concern oneself about another world, about God, the Soul, or Religion. And yet despite all this erudition, there is no man whose mind is not ever asking, What am I to believe? It is no part of the design of this book to attempt an.

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