The Free-Thinker´s Information for the People (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Free-Thinker´s Information for the People The description of the creation and the fall of man, commonly known by the name of the "Mosaic account," is contained in the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis. Moses, a Jewish Law-giver, having been represented as the author of the book, the account has always gone by his name. This statement of the origin of things, being the foundation of a most gigantic and extensively organized system of superstition, and one which has been a great stumbling-block in the path of human improvement, we purpose, in this treatise, to exhibit some of the most glaring absurdities and defects contained in this "account," and to prove by scientific induction, the utter impossibility, according to the canons of rational criticism, of the Bible statement being true. The first chapter of Genesis commences with what some divines have called, the most sublime passage on record, but which to our uninspired understanding, seems but an inflated common place exclamation, explaining nothing. For we are told, "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth," leaving us entirely at a loss to know what the Deity had been doing prior to this event, and the circumstances which had induced God at this particular juncture "from an eternity of idleness," to arise and frame the fair fabric of creation. We are next informed, that "the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters." From this it would appear, that after the "beginning" and the "creation of the heaven and the earth," the earth was without form and void, or in other words, the earth did and did not ∃ for how a thing could be "without form and void," and yet have a specific existence, is one of those theological puzzles entirely beyond our comprehension. If the earth existed, however crude and misshapen, it must have had form; and as for being void, it is impossible if it filled space at all, for the meaning of the term "void," is, to be blank, empty, non-existent. We have, therefore, a palpable contradiction in the two first verses, for if creation took place "in the beginning," according to the first verse, the second verse must be untrue; and if the second verse be true, the first one must be false, for the work of creation could not have taken place when the "earth was without form and void." So, that in whatever way we view it, the orthodox believer is on the horns of a dilemma. The book next proceeds, in the third and succeeding verses, to detail the work of creation. Light is created, and is "divided from darkness" by some chemical process, and the "light is called day, and the darkness night." This is the first day´s work; and, if this be the origin of light, Deity must have been enveloped in darkness from all eternity up to this time. The second day´s work is the division of the waters, by means of a "firmament," which, in the language of the text, was to divide "the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament;" the partition, or firmament, being called heaven, and with the creation of which ended the second day. The "divine historian," in this lame attempt to explain the "dividing of the waters," adopts an opinion almost universal in ancient times, namely, that the concave sphere which appears to surround our earth, studded with innumerable stars, was a solid body of crystal, or some other bright material, but which had the heavenly property of being indestructible; and that the rain which fell to the earth oozed through the crystal sphere by means of holes or "windows," regulated by the Deity. Hence the division of the waters above the firmam
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