“If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.” IfsMindBelieveWould BeAgeFatherJesusSoundChristJesus ChristConclusionFollyLatterFalsehoodTestamentNew TestamentFanaticsIrresistibleBiographersSound Mind Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.” ThinkingMenShouldHumansHelpingChristChurchAtheismProtectAmbitionPositive AtheismOur TimeFollyWorldlyChurch Of Christ Author:Hilary of Poitiers
“If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.” IfsThinkingMenWayDoneMightFallChristCan DoGreaterSalvationCommittedVainFollyRighteousnessFall Of Man Book:The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - III Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - III