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Ch 11: science and studying the natural world is the best way to honor and follow God.

Christianity follows a man not God

“ it is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God”
We can reasons Gods existence through our existence. We cannot fully comprehend God

“ the word of God is the creation we be hold: and it is in this word, which no human infection can the counterfeit or alter that God speaketh universally to man”

Scripture is creation

Jesus only spoke Hebrew. Word gets lost in translation
For me: research paying church for pardon

Ch 7: The Old Testament was collected by “the church” arranged as they wanted, rejecting what they didn’t.

Paine hates the Old Testament because it is cruel and obscene. (note to me to read the Testament.)

The Word of God cannot be written as humans are fallible and it is given that things get messed up in translation. Gods word should not be altered. His word comes from perception.

Ch 6: The creation of life and Earth proves God’s love for humanity.
Our ability to perceive beauty is proof of God (my interpretation)


“the instant we are born," people receive "a world furnished to our hands, that cost us nothing."

He says Christianity depicts Satan and powerful as God because they need an evil figure.