Emma Livingston, the Infidels?; Daughter. or Conversations Upon Atheism, Infidelity and Universalism

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: Baptist Pub. Co. Subjects: Universalism Atheism Religion / Atheism Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. A DISAPPOINTMENT. Though Emma Livingston had no opportunity to con verse with her father upon the subject winch occupied her thoughts, she was not idle. That old Bible -- her mother's Bible, which now she felt that she could read with the full approbation of her father, was her companion for the day. She began at Genesis. "' In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth.' It is just as my father said," she mentally exclaimed. " This Book takes for granted that there is a God ; it tells what God did, and what God said; and if there be no God, it must of course have been all a mere fiction. But who can Prove that there is No God ? There may be a God, and he just such a God as the Bible speaks of, though it should he impossible (as my father suggests) by any process of reasoning, to determine with absolute certainty that he does exist." These thoughts passed quickly through her mind, and she resumed her reading -- the history of the creation of the world, of Adam and Eve, of Cain and Abel, of Noah and the flood, of Abraham and Isaac, of Jacob and Esau, of Joseph and his brethren, she had read before her father came nome to dinner ; and she was morethan convinced that the young pastor's wife had told the truth when she assured her that she would find the Bible a very interesting book. No romance that she had ever read could compare with this history in inter est. There was a sort of fascination in the pages which riveted her gaze, and fixed her atte...