"The doctrine of original sin claims that all……" — Walter Kaufmann
"The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering."
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25 Quotes by Walter Kaufmann
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic…
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Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the…
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Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack…
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Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to…
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Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading…
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Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.
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No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character…
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose -…
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate;…
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one…
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I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan…
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do,…
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God…
— Lewis Black
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Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man,…
— Kirk Cameron
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's…
— Adam Ant
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
— Arthur W. Pink
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
— Herman Bavinck
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It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just…
— Wayne Grudem
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