Voltaire was born in Paris, France in 1694. As a philosopher, historian and free thinker, he became a most influential and prolific writer during what has been called the Age of Enlightenment. He vehemently opposed the Christian faith and wrote many rather scoffing works expressing his disdain for the faith and the Bible. His railings against Christianity are filled with poisonous venom, calling the Christian faith the “infamous superstition.”
In 1764 he wrote, “The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart” . “But we are living in the twilight of Christianity”. In a 1767 letter to Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, he wrote: “Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world…Voltaire ended every letter to friends with “crush the Christian religion). In his pamphlet, The Sermon on the Fifty (1762) he attacked viciously the Old Testament, biblical miracles, biblical contradictions, the Jewish religion, the Christian God, the virgin birth and Christ’s death on the cross. And finally, “To invent all those things [in the Bible], To believe them, the extreme of brutal stupidity!”
But, Voltaire died, like all men must do. And the Word of God outlasted him. In August 1836, only fifty-eight years after Voltaire’s death, Voltaire’s former residence in Geneva, Switzerland, was being used as a “publishing house for Bibles and Christian. tracts.” The Word of God is not BOUND.