The Bible of BiblesThere isn't just one Bible: there are many sacred books to be found all over the globe that claim to be the word of God, that purport to offer the only true path to eternal life, and that name all disbelievers in them as infidels. But they can't all be right, and in this foundational work of modern atheism, American spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) lays out, in clear, concise, often mocking terms, the basis for denying the divine inspiration of all of them. Discover. . seven obscure Oriental Bibles . the "infidels" Bible . the moral defects of the Ten Commandments . unfulfilled Bible prophecies . errors in Bible facts and figures . 277 Bible contradictions . heathen customs appropriated by God . the impossibility of a person God . and much more. This is essential reading for students of comparative mythology and modern freethinkers. Also available from Cosimo: Graves's The Biography of Satan and The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors |
Contents
An Erroneous Doctrine | 195 |
DeathBed Repentance | 196 |
An Erroneous Doctrine | 199 |
Evils of the Belief in | 202 |
An Immoral Doctrine | 205 |
An Erroneous Doctrine | 209 |
Bible Errors Respecting | 213 |
A Personal God Impossible | 216 |
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Ten Foolish Bible Stories | 72 |
Bible Prophecies Not Fulfilled | 91 |
Two Hundred and Seventyseven Bible Contradictions | 101 |
Two Hundred Cases of Obscene Language in the Bible | 121 |
Holy Mountains Lands Cities and Rivers | 127 |
Chapter 28 Character of Moses | 135 |
Character of David Solomon and Lot | 146 |
Its Nature Harmlessness and Origin | 158 |
New Testament Errors | 178 |
Our Duties are All Recorded in the Bible of Nature | 181 |
A Divine Revelation Adverse to Human Progress | 183 |
Primeval Innocency of Man Not True | 184 |
Original Sin and Fall of Man Not True | 186 |
Moral Depravity of Man a Delusion | 188 |
Free Agency and Moral Accountability Erroneous | 191 |
Chapter 45 Evil Natural and Moral Explained | 218 |
A Rational View of Sin and Its Consequences | 223 |
The Bible Sanctions Every Species of Crime | 227 |
Theft or Robbery | 230 |
The Evil of Intemperance | 231 |
Slaveholding | 234 |
Chapter 48 The Immoral Influence of the Bible | 242 |
Chapter 50The Bible as a Moral Necessity | 251 |
Send No More Bibles to the Heathen | 257 |
The Three Christian Plans of Salvation | 283 |
The True Religion Defined | 298 |
Infidelity in Oriental Nations | 311 |
Chapter 57Sects Schisms and Skeptics in Christian Countries | 319 |
Character of the Christian God | 335 |
Character and Erroneous Doctrines of the Apostles Apostles | 343 |
Idolatrous Veneration for Bibles | 354 |
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Page 151 - But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Page 92 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 346 - And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come ? whose damnation is just.
Page 143 - ... in their schools of philosophy. Accordingly there was a Presumption against chnst the Gospel in its first announcement. A Jewish peasant claimed to be the promised Deliverer, in whom all the nations of the Earth were to be blessed.
Page 79 - Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomor'rah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Page 14 - I look on a world of sinners and sufferers, upon death-beds and graveyards, upon the world of woe, filled with hosts to suffer forever ; when I see my friends, my parents, my family, my people, my fellow-citizens; when I look upon a whole race, all involved in this sin and danger ; and when I see the great mass of them wholly unconcerned ; and when I feel that God only can save them, and yet He does not do it, — I am struck dumb. It is all dark, dark, dark, to my soul ; and I cannot disguise it.
Page 133 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Page 337 - And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith ? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also : go forth, and do so.