The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.
And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.
It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.