Category: Quotes
We cannot fail to recognise Him…
‘Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?’ The hope, that she might now learn what...
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Butler: All of the evidence taken together
[T]he truth of our religion, like the truth of common matters, is to be judged of by all the evidence taken together. And unless the whole series of things which may be alleged in this argument, and every particular thing in it, can reasonably be supposed to have been by accident (for here the stress of the argument for Christianity lies); then is the truth of it proved; …
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Chesterton on Miracles
Somehow or other an extraordinary idea has arisen that the disbelievers in miracles consider them...
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Nathaniel Lardner on the Argument from Silence
TWO OBJECTIONS TAKEN FROM THE SILENCE OF JOSEPHUS. I. He has not mentioned the slaughter of the...
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Jeremy Belknap: The nature of testimony and the rules of evidence universally acknowledged among mankind
If it be allowed that there was such a person as Jesus Christ, that he was virtuous and amiable,...
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Humphrey Ditton on the Place of Reason
“If whilst we attempt to infer the Truth of the Resurrection of Christ, we run counter to any...
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Brooke Foss Westcott: To this point all former history converges
If the fact of the Resurrection be in itself, as it confessedly is, absolutely unique in all human experience, the point which it occupies in history is absolutely unique also. To this point all former history converges as to a certain goal: from this point all subsequent history flows as from its life-giving spring.
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Grotius on Alleged Contradictions in the Gospels
It is objected by some, that the sense of these books is sometimes very different: but whoever...
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George Campbell: What is the criterion whereby we must judge, whether the laws of nature are transgressed?
Now I insist, that as far as regards the author’s argument, a fact perfectly unusual, or not...
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Thomas Chalmers: The exercise of reason in matters of theology
After we have established Christianity to be an authentic message from God upon those historical grounds, on which the reason and experience of man entitle him to form his conclusions, nothing remains for us but an unconditional surrender of the mind to the subject of the message. We have a right to sit in judgment over the credentials of heaven’s ambassador, but we have no right to sit in judgment over the information he gives us.
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Alexander Campbell’s Excellent Memory
The following is an interesting observation from Alexander Campbell’s Debate on the Evidences of...
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William Adams: For men to act without motives is unnatural
For men to act without motives is as unnatural, as it is for a body to sink without weight—to act against the force of motives is as contrary to nature, as it is for a stone to ascend against the laws of gravity. Hear what this author says himself in another Essay: “We cannot make use of a more convincing argument, than to prove, that the actions ascribed to any person are directly contrary to the course of nature, and that no human motives, in such circumstances, could ever induce him to such a conduct.”
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