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The Rationalist's Manual

M. D. Aletheia

Author of "A Rationalist Catechism," "The Agnostic's Primer," etc.

"To the mind, as it develops in speculative power, the problem of the universe suggests itself. What is it? and Whence comes it? are questions that press for solution, when, from time to time, the imagination rises above daily trivialities."

Herbert Spencer

LONDON:
WATTS & CO., 17, JOHNSON'S COURT, FLEET ST.
1897.

The Rationalist's Manual

In this section we present the full text of this book in two parts.

This could well be one of the most important books you'll ever read.

Click the links below for Part I and Part II.

While the Hebrews were traveling from Egypt to invade the land that God said they could have for their own, they left a path of utter destruction in their path.

When Moses came down off the Mount with the tablets that had the ten commandments written on them, he saw the people dancing naked and worshipping the golden calf idol. This made him so angry that he threw the tablets down and they broke (Exodus 32:19). He then had the people kill each other.

God had commanded that his people were not to make idols or images that they would bowed down before and worship (Leviticus 26:1).

A popular Bible story tells how the Hebrews made a golden calf and began to worship it while Moses was on the Mount getting the ten commandments from God. Once God realized that the people had gone astray, he decided he would kill all his chosen people and start all over with Moses, making a "great nation" out of his offspring, like he had promised to do with Abraham's offspring. Moses reasons with God (a very brave thing to do considering God's short temper) telling God,

With the release of the movie "The Prince of Egypt" the public is once again flooded with the biased version of the story of Moses and the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt. The Pharoh is always painted as an evil man who enslaved the Hebrews and did everything in his power to keep them as his slaves. We often wonder what could make a man so stubborn that it took numerous plagues and the death of his own firstborn before he let the Hebrews go free. The Bible tells us what could make a man so stubborn; God's manipulation.

Abraham's son, Isaac had two sons of his own. They were twins named Esau (who came out first) and Jacob. According to the Hebrew law, the firstborn son was to receive the best part of the father's inheritance. Esau was a cunning hunter and Jacob was a simple tent dweller. Isaac loved his firstborn son and enjoyed the food that he was able to capture but Isaac's wife loved the secondborn son, Jacob most of all.