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1. The bible and the Testament are impositions upon the world, that the fall of man , the account of Jesus Christ being the Son of God, and of his dying to appease the wrath of God, and of salvation by that strange means are all fabulous inventions , dishonorable to the wisdom and power of the Almighty.

2. There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is he believed in hell. I do not feel that any operson who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment
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3. Under tne Law of Moses, one could make an atoning animal sacrifice to absolve oneself of wrongdoing. A perfectly harmless creature would be gashed at the throat and drained of its blood on the altar absolving the wrongdoing by virtue of an innocent thing dying in a guilty person's place.

So, essentially, the solution proposed by God under Moses was for two wrongs to make a right.

4. No one knows enough of the early life of Jesus to write a biography of him. If we were to use historical facts scarcely three lines could be written.

5. Jesus thought he could drive devils out of people. (Matt. 8)

6. Jesus said "He that believeth not shall be damned." In other words if you cannot think as I do you could spend an eternity in the Christian hell.'

7. Jesus said (-Mark 16) "In my name they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. (Horse biscuits!

8. In both Matthew and Luke all that stands between Mary and a charge of adultery is the claim that her pregnancy was caused by devine rather than human agency. This same claim is also the only shield Jesus has against a charge of illegitimacy;

9. Christains spend entirely too much time appealing to God with selfish, childish petitions.

10. Public prayer has become an important instrument in social and religious propagnda. Even priests and preachers do not observe the injunction of Jesus to pray in private.

11. Jesus came not to save the world, but to save only a small part of it---namely, the Jews, God's chosen people.

12. Christians believe that God sent Jesus to spread the glad tidings. How was Jesus to make anything known to all nations? He could speak only Hebrew and there are several hundred languages in the world;

13. The same clothes lasted 3 million Jews for 40 years during the entire journey from Egypt to the holy land.

14. Out of water and tired of manna the Jews asked Moses to use his influence to make some changes. As soon as the request was made this God of infinite mercy became enraged and sent serpents to punish the hungry Jews.

15. God commanded the Jews to plant trees in the Sinai desert but not t0 eat the fruit for four years. Could God have been uaware that trees wouldn't grow in the desert?

16. Only 3 of the 33 years of his life are known to us and our qccounts of those 3 years differ widely. We do not know what this unimportant preacher looked like, when he was born or when he died .

17. Jesus was not a Christian. He was a reforming Jew to the end

18. There is no proof for a single miracle in the Old Testament or the New

19. It was Jesus who introduced the doctrine of eternal punishment. There was never another doctrine as reprehensible or detestable as this doctrine of everlasting torment for the un-saved.

20. It was believed by Jesus and by his followers that the end of the world's existence was at hand.
21. The concept of Jesus as a supernatural being prompted the account by Matthew of most unusual events on the occasionof the crucifixion: there was an earthquake, graves were opened and the dead bodies received new life and walked away.
22. The books which were formerly attributed to the authorship of Moses could not have been his because events which were mentioned did not occur in many instances until long after his death. Many towns named did not exist during the time of Moses.
23. The Dead Sea Scrolls date from A.D. 88 t0 A.D. 135 yet they make no mention of J esus.
24. There is nothing in Jewish literature of the 1st century A.D. referring to Jesus.
25. Jesus ascended into heaven on the day of resurrrection/ John: 8 days after/ Bookof Acts: 40 days after.

26. Christians promised that with faith they could perform miracles.
27. The fall of man, the account of Jesus being the Son of God, and of his dying to appease the wrath of God, and of salvation by that strange means are all fabulous inventions.