Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-12-08

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flutes the claims" Mr.. Paine on page
rs, of his work. states: 1T has been
the practice of all Christian commen-
tators on the Bible to i'm
pose the Bible on the world as a mass
of truth, and the Word of God. One
person states that certain passage
means one thing and another that it
means directly the contrary and the
third that it means neither one nor
the other, but something different
from both" All through Mr.. Paine's
works, he says the Bible contradicts
itself. On page Mr.. Helmicll says:
From the foregoing proofs we have
established as fact our first propo-
sition, viz, that the human testimony
as to the origin of the book of Mormon
is positively contradictory. On page
140, Mr. Paine, in speaking of Mat
thew and Luke in their genealogy of
Christ, states Gas they contradict each
other in every particular it proves
falsehood absolutely" On page ID Mr..
Helmick reasons as follws There
fore, if it can be shown that the book
of Mormon contains evidences of illit-
eracy, ignorance and absurdities we
shall have proven our second propo-
1.-THE New Testament compared with
the old is farce in one act, in which
there is not room for very numerous
violations of the writer's. There are
however, some glaring contradictions
which exclusive of the fallacy of the
pretended prophecies, are sufficient to
show the story of Christ to be false"
On page 154, Mr.. Paine further states,
lxxril hn fNrrn h. OH .f tIa
story is worth noticing for it shows
the writer of the book of Matthew to
have been an exceedingly weak AMI
foolish man." On page II, Mr.. Helm
lex gives evidence of the ignorance
displayed in the book of Mormon. On
page ITO, Mr.. Paine gives evidence of
the ignorance displayed in the Bible.
On page II, Mr.. Helmick says, "Nephi
slipped several cogs in his dates
when he saw the COW, the horse and
the ass, and Mr.. Paine on page 81 says
Saul was 306 years out of date when
he went to seek his fathers asses and
was made king" Mr.. Helmick SAYS
the book of Mormon is full of errors
and Thomas Paine says the Bible is
all error. On page %, Mr. Helmick
SCOTS at cigarshaped ship and on
page SO Mr. Paine pokes fun at an
iron bedstead. On page 23 Mr.. Helm
ick says there is nothing to connect
the book of Mormon with the Amer
lean content. On page 113, Mr.. Paine
says there is nothing to connect the
book of Job with the Bible Mr..
Helmick, on page "a, brands Joseph
Smith thus, 'If he (Joseph SMITH
did not know the meaning of the
word (author) and still was not the
author, he brands himself as a stu
pendous falsifier and a perpetrator Of
a gigantic fraud" On page 1O1, Mr..
Paine states, "Will we (the preachers)
with all the mass of evidence against
you still march into your pulpits and
continue these books (of the Bible)
on your congregation as the works
of inspired penmen and the work
of God when it is evident that the
persons who we say are the authors
are not the authors and we know not
who the authors are. What shadow
of pretence have We now for con-
tinuing the blasphemous fraud. Yours
is a system of falsehood, idolatory
and pretended revelation. On pages
16 and II, Mr.. Helmick in his book
let quotes some of the worst passages
in the book of Mormon he can find.
Mr.. Paine asks all preachers to read
the following to their congregations:
Eek 4:12-15; 2nd Kings 1927; Isiah.
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