Who wrote this? Its a well know person. ?

Question

The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit, but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it and the world is an inexplicable riddle, believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

Answer 1

T'was Napoleon. Not a particularly bright guy, by today's standards.

Answer 2

lee stroble

Answer 3

Its being attributed to Napoleon.  And it took me longer to type this than it did to copy and paste it in Google.  

Answer 4

It's by some Tryon Edwards bloke. He wrote it in A Dictionary of Thoughts. I've never heard of him until now, so I suppose he's not too well know. I don't care much for his 'God of Gaps' c**p.

Edit: Haha. Oh, I see. Edwards just wrote down Napoleon's quote. Still, I feel the same way about it regardless of who said it. Come to think of it, I dislike it even more because Napoleon said it.

Answer 5

Well it's certainly not anyone who's firing on all cylinders, so it could be anybody.

Answer 6

I don't know

Answer 7

A simple search on Yahoo.com for some parts of the phrase shows that the quote is credited to Napolean Bonaparte.

Of course, he's also credited with saying "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god." and "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

http://www.cafepress.com/nostupid.676278...

Answer 8

i think it's Lee Strobel, too.  he is a great man.

Answer 9

I'm sorry, I do not know.   However, I do like it.  It's the truth.

Answer 10

Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 11

Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (1804-1814). A brilliant military strategist, 1769-1821

"The nature of Christ’s existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it and the world is an inexplicable riddle – believe it; and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.”

"I know men and I tell you, Jesus Christ is not a man.”

“His religion is a revelation from an intelligence which certainly is not that of a man.”

“Between him and whoever else in the world, there is no possible term of comparison. He is truly a being by himself. His ideas and his sentiments, the truth which he announces, his manner of convincing, are not explained by human organization. The nearer I approach, the more carefully I examine, everything is above me – everything remains grand, of a grandeur which overpowers.”

“I see in Lycurgus, Numa, and Mohammed only legislators. Nothing announces them divine. On the contrary, there are numerous resemblances between them and myself – foibles and error which ally them to me and to humanity. But it is not so with Christ – everything in Him astonishes me. His spirit overawes me, and His will confounds me.”

“Here I see nothing human.”

“He is not a philosopher.”