The Buddha of Christendom : a book for the present crisis / by Robert Anderson.

  • Robert Anderson
Date:
1899
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    no beginning, and therefore was never made, and this is our primary conception of God. And while the evolutionist, perchance, would train his babies to bow down to some “symbolic concep- tion” of the great “primordial germ,” the cult being regulated by the Principles of Biology, others, with the help of a very different book, will teach their children to worship the “God who created the heavens and the earth.” “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.” I And he is a fool, not because his thesis is heretical, but because it is absurd—absurd because his own existence implies the existence of God. His words are thus an outrage upon reason. The existence of God is, next to our own, the most certain fact in the whole range of human knowledge. For let us not forget that in seeking the origin of life in the world our choice is strictly limited to one of two hypotheses, creation or abiogcnesis. And abiogenesis proves wholly worthless—“worth- less in its intrinsic incoherence ; worthless as abso- lutely without evidence; worthless as not supplying '■ Psa. xiv. and liii.
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