The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the Fall |
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... rebellion against the Almighty Creator , and that not one wail of sorrow and misery ever mingles with the chorus of universal thanksgiving . It is natural to inquire , Would not such a universe have been far pre- ferable to what we see ...
... rebellion against the Almighty Creator , and that not one wail of sorrow and misery ever mingles with the chorus of universal thanksgiving . It is natural to inquire , Would not such a universe have been far pre- ferable to what we see ...
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... rebellion , or else have required their annihilation , to hinder a second and total apostasy of all the survivors of the first destruction . But surely it is less unworthy of the Divine wisdom to abstain from creation altogether , than ...
... rebellion , or else have required their annihilation , to hinder a second and total apostasy of all the survivors of the first destruction . But surely it is less unworthy of the Divine wisdom to abstain from creation altogether , than ...
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... rebellion in the earthly and the heavenly Paradise . " What could have been done more to my vineyard , that I have not done to it ? Wherefore , when I looked that it should bring forth grapes , brought it forth wild grapes ? " Thus God ...
... rebellion in the earthly and the heavenly Paradise . " What could have been done more to my vineyard , that I have not done to it ? Wherefore , when I looked that it should bring forth grapes , brought it forth wild grapes ? " Thus God ...
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... rebellion by which multitudes of them became apostates from their original glory . It is a truth which looms dimly and awfully upon us through the mists of a past eternity . In the hour of creation , when the foundations of the earth ...
... rebellion by which multitudes of them became apostates from their original glory . It is a truth which looms dimly and awfully upon us through the mists of a past eternity . In the hour of creation , when the foundations of the earth ...
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... rebellion will manifest itself , to exhaust the treasures of His wisdom and grace in providing a remedy . Angels were . so constituted that , if it were possible , though mutable , they might stand . Man was so created , that , in the ...
... rebellion will manifest itself , to exhaust the treasures of His wisdom and grace in providing a remedy . Angels were . so constituted that , if it were possible , though mutable , they might stand . Man was so created , that , in the ...
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