The Truth Teaching: The Bible

Описание: This lesson is about the Bible or word of God. Napoleon said this of the bible: “The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it. We can say to the authors of every other religion, ‘You are neither gods nor the agents of the Deity. You are but missionaries of falsehood, moulded from the same clay with the rest of mortals. You arc made with all the passions and vices inseparable from them. Your temples and your priests proclaim your origin.’ Such will be the judgment, the cry of conscience, of whoever examines the gods and the temples of paganism. “Paganism was never accepted, as truth, by the wise men of Greece ; neither by Socrates. Pythagoras, Plato, Anaxagoras, or Pericles. On the other side, the loftiest intellects, since the advent of Christianity, have had faith, a living faith, a practical faith, in the mysteries and the doctrines of the gospel ; not only Bossuet and Fenelon, who were preachers, but Descartes and Newton, Leibniz and Pascal, Corneille and Racine, Charlemagne and Louis XIV. “Paganism is the work of man. One can hear, read but our imbecility. What do these gods, so boastful, knew more than other mortals? These legislators, Greek or Roman, this Numa, this Lycurgus, these priests of India or of Memphis, this Confucius, this Mohammed? Absolutely nothing. They have made a perfect chaos of morals. There is not one among them all who has said any thing new in reference to our future destiny, to the soul, to the essence of God, to the creation. Enter the sanctuaries of paganism. You there find perfect chaos, a thousand contradictions, war between the gods...