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... Dead - Creed of the Alliance - Total De- pravity , Eternal Damnation - What do You Propose ? -The Gospel of Good - fellowship , Cheerfulness , Health , Good Living , Justice - No Forgiveness - God's Forgiveness Does not Pay my Debt to ...
... Dead - Creed of the Alliance - Total De- pravity , Eternal Damnation - What do You Propose ? -The Gospel of Good - fellowship , Cheerfulness , Health , Good Living , Justice - No Forgiveness - God's Forgiveness Does not Pay my Debt to ...
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... dead mother , was sent by the loving gods . No devil was ever charged with such fiendish brutality . One of these gods , according to the account , drowned an entire world , with the exception of eight persons . The old , the young ...
... dead mother , was sent by the loving gods . No devil was ever charged with such fiendish brutality . One of these gods , according to the account , drowned an entire world , with the exception of eight persons . The old , the young ...
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... dead calm of ignorance and faith ! Banish me from Eden when you will ; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge ! Some nations have borrowed their gods ; of this number , we are compelled to say , is our own . The Jews ...
... dead calm of ignorance and faith ! Banish me from Eden when you will ; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge ! Some nations have borrowed their gods ; of this number , we are compelled to say , is our own . The Jews ...
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... dead people come to life , simply to get a joke on their enemies and heirs ; witches and wizards converse freely with the souls of the departed , and God himself becomes a stone - cutter and engraver , after having been a tailor and ...
... dead people come to life , simply to get a joke on their enemies and heirs ; witches and wizards converse freely with the souls of the departed , and God himself becomes a stone - cutter and engraver , after having been a tailor and ...
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... matter , and superior to nature , is a demonstrated impossibility . Force , then , must have also existed from eter- nity , and could not have been created . Matter in its countless forms , from dead earth to the 46 THE GODS .
... matter , and superior to nature , is a demonstrated impossibility . Force , then , must have also existed from eter- nity , and could not have been created . Matter in its countless forms , from dead earth to the 46 THE GODS .
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Page 20 - And the woman said unto, the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 486 - For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned : but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Page 464 - And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life ? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good ? there is none good but one, that is, God : but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Page 126 - These are the times that try men's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 482 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Page 21 - So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Page 20 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree -of life, and eat, and live for ever...