The Truth Of Christianity Being An Examination Of The More Important Arguments For And Against Believing In That Religion

"The Truth of Christianity: Being an Examination of the More Important Arguments For and Against Believing in That Religion" by W. H. Turton is a compelling and fascinating look at Christianity in the context of England in the 19th century. Starting by breaking down the very nature of religion and giving the context of Judaism which eventually created Christianity, this book gives an encompassing history of the Christian faith and the truths that can be found within it through prophecies and other evidence.

No matter what your personal beliefs are, it's indisputable that Christianity has played a major role in influencing human culture over the last two thousand years. In this thought-provoking volume, author William Turton examines the evidence for and against the truth of Christianity. His fair-minded assessment of the controversy will appeal to believers and skeptics alike.

In this detailed examination of the evidence for and against Christianity, William Harry Turton provides a thorough analysis of the key arguments for the truth of the religion. Topics covered include the resurrection of Jesus, the problem of evil, and the reliability of the Bible. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THAT THEREFORE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IS EXTREMELY PROBABLE. (A.) Meaning Of The Term God. The Personal Being who designed and originated the universe: some remarks on Personality. (B.) Two Of The Divine Attributes. Wisdom and Power. (C.) The Objection That God 1s Unknowable. This is partly true; but everything is unknowable in its real nature, though in each case the partial knowledge we can obtain is all we require. (D.) Summary Of Argument. (A.) Meaning Of The Term God. We decided in the last chapter that the Creator designed the universe; in other words, that when He created it He foreknew its future history. Now any being who is able to design we will call a personal being. And God is the name given to the Personal Being who designed and created the universe. Hence the proposition at the head of this chapter follows at once. Before, however, leaving the subject of personality, it should be noticed that the term when applied to man is commonly used in a much wider sense than ishere given to it, and includes various other attributes, such as self - consciousness (or being able, to think about oneself), as well as the power of designing. Many writers indeed say it involves the three ideas of thought, desire, and will; but these seem to be all included in designing; for if I design anything, I must first of all think of it, then wish it, and then accomplish it. We will examine in the next chapter whether man is a personal being as we have denned the term; but two remarks may be made here. The first is, that if we admit the personality of man, we have another and independent argument in favour of that of the Creator. For the Creator has somehow or other produced man, with all his attributes; and, therefore, He cannot be a mere impe...

Excerpt from The Truth of Christianity: Being an Examination of the More Important Arguments for and Against Believing in That Religion A few words of explanation are necessary in publishing this Essay. For many years I have been engaged, off and on, in discussing the subjects here treated of, and have of course kept notes of the more important arguments on both sides. By degrees these became voluminous, and had to be arranged in different groups; but as I had no intention of publishing them, I kept no record as to where the arguments came from, or how far they were copied either in words or substance. Under these circumstances I have naturally hesitated to publish the book, but have at length decided to do so, more especially as the writer to whom I feel most indebted, the late Mr. G. Warington, has himself adopted a somewhat similar method. In his Introduction to When was the Pentateuch Written? after mentioning the books he has most consulted, he says, "Critics who are acquainted with these works will easily recognise how much is borrowed from them and how much is original. For the ordinary reader, and the general purposes of the book, the matter is one neither of interest nor consequence." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.