Modern Spiritualism Compared With Christianity (1855) (Hardcover)

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: DEBATE. First Question: Are tli teachings and phenomena of Modern Spiritualism identical with those of Jesus Christ? Affirmative, Tiftaht. Negative, Ekbett. FIRST DAY. Horning Session. Mr. Tiffany. Mr. Moderator, Ladies, and Gentlemen:?Mr. Errett and myself have conferred together with regard to the rules necessary to be observed in this debate, and find that we shall need but few, and those very simple ones. We have agreed to have sessions both in the morning and in the afternoon, and that five half-hour speeches shall be made in each session; giving to each party the opening and closing argument upon the alternate half- days. We shall meet in the forenoon at half-past nine o'clock, so that we may close at noon; and in the afternoon at two, closing the day's debate at four. In entering upon a discussion for the purpose of ascertaining and maintaining principles, it is necessary that we have some fundamental basis, from which we may both take our departure and know whence we start. Whenever we intend to produce conviction in the minds of individuals, it is important that they should be made to understand the distinction between facts and truths, and I shall therefore make this distinction at the outset and observe it throughout the debate. The position I am to maintain is, that the phenomena and teachings of Modern Spiritualism are identical in character with those of Jesus of Nazareth. In the discussion of the second question I shall affirm that the sect known as the Disciples is anti-Christ in faith and practice. I now proceed to those definitions and preliminary propositions which it will be necessary for my friend Mr. Errett and myself to assent to and observe in conducting the discussion. 1. That which perceives existence ia called mind. I am t...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	December 2009
Authors:	Joel Tiffany • Isaac Errett
Editors:	J.D. Cox
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	420
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-83754-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-120-83754-5
Barcode:	9781120837547

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