A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three Parts |
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... story , for which the first propagators of Christianity suffered , was miraculous CHAPTER VII . That it was , in the main , the story which we have now , proved by indirect considerations .. 80 84 CHAPTER VIII . The same proved from the ...
... story , for which the first propagators of Christianity suffered , was miraculous CHAPTER VII . That it was , in the main , the story which we have now , proved by indirect considerations .. 80 84 CHAPTER VIII . The same proved from the ...
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... story of the evidence arose . Now I think that we are obliged ; not , perhaps , to show by positive accounts how it did , but by a probable hypothesis how it might so happen . The existence of the testimony is a phenomenon . The truth ...
... story of the evidence arose . Now I think that we are obliged ; not , perhaps , to show by positive accounts how it did , but by a probable hypothesis how it might so happen . The existence of the testimony is a phenomenon . The truth ...
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... story arose . ' But it is plain we are bound to point out some way in which false statements of such events might have arisen , or else to admit them ( as in fact every one does ) to be true . It is wonderful how many persons , not ...
... story arose . ' But it is plain we are bound to point out some way in which false statements of such events might have arisen , or else to admit them ( as in fact every one does ) to be true . It is wonderful how many persons , not ...
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... story . It has been said , however , since the time of Paley , that Hume's argument would have been valid , if , instead of the word ' Experience ' he had used ' Analogy , ' and that he would have been justified in maintaining that ...
... story . It has been said , however , since the time of Paley , that Hume's argument would have been valid , if , instead of the word ' Experience ' he had used ' Analogy , ' and that he would have been justified in maintaining that ...
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... story . This is perfectly incredible . To me it appears little less than certain , that , if the first announcing of the religion by the founder had not been followed up by the zeal and industry of his immediate disciples , the attempt ...
... story . This is perfectly incredible . To me it appears little less than certain , that , if the first announcing of the religion by the founder had not been followed up by the zeal and industry of his immediate disciples , the attempt ...
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