sep 12, 1694 - Reimarus

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-- orthodox interpretation of the scripture.
-- Carefully analysed events in the Bible such as the crossing of the red sea.
-- ushers the quest for the historical Jesus and foreshadowing the religious criticism of the new atheism of the twentieth century.
-- As a deist he rejected the historical worth of events in the Bible ascribed to supernatural agents
-- ignored historical and literary criticism, sources, date, origin, etc., of documents, and the narratives were said to be either purely divine or purely human.
-- He suggested that The design of the writers of the New testament, as well as that of Jesus, was not to teach true rational religion, but to serve their own selfish ambitions, thereby exhibiting an amazing combination of conscious fraud and enthusiasm.
-- However, he also attacked atheism with equal criticsim

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