ABSTRACT
The Age of Reason, not content with ridiculing the miraculous conception of the Saviour of the worlds calls in question his divine mission also, by asserting, “that it is not difficult to account for the credit that was given to the story of Jesus Christ being the Son of God. He was born at a time when the heathen mythology had prepared the people for the belief of such a story—almost all the extraordinary men, who lived under the heathen mythology; were reputed to be the sons of some of their Gods. The story, therefore, had nothing in it either new, wonderful or obscene: it was conformable to the opinions that then prevailed among the Gentiles, or mythologists, and it was those people only, that believed it. The Jews, who had kept strictly to the belief of one God, and no more, and who had always rejected the heathen mythology, never credited the story.”
