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Deists: Please explain why you are a deist and what attributes you put on god.
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Atheist deny God and Agnostics do not know God.
Essentially they are the same.
Understand God can not be seen, tested or repeated to be seem as true.
Why do theist believe in God?
Well it comes down to a very profound word called faith. That is a belief in something you can see or touch feel.
Atheist or Agnos have no faith and the Theist has a faith in what?
Mollech? Buddha? Hinduism?
I have faith in Jesus Christ who said he was God. It takes a simple thing could believe.
This is faith it has nothign to do with a sign.
Essentially they are the same.
Understand God can not be seen, tested or repeated to be seem as true.
Why do theist believe in God?
Well it comes down to a very profound word called faith. That is a belief in something you can see or touch feel.
Atheist or Agnos have no faith and the Theist has a faith in what?
Mollech? Buddha? Hinduism?
I have faith in Jesus Christ who said he was God. It takes a simple thing could believe.
This is faith it has nothign to do with a sign.
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In reality there were almost no real deists, as modern self-described Deists like to think of themselves, during the so-called "Enlightenment", if by Deism you mean somebody that believes in a God that is indifferent to the world. What you will find a lot of, on the other hand, are people that are highly skeptical of church authority, religious doctrinal distinctives, and tales of the miraculous, but continue to believe in God. And most believed in a God that providentially ordered the world (through foreknowledge... remember this was an age highly influenced by Calvinism in the US and England), so he did not need to "intervene" per se. In some cases they might even consider themselves Christians, as Benjamin Franklin did. If these people lived today, we'ld call them "spiritual but not religious".
Then there are people like Payne, for instance... he was a real deist. Openly hostile to Christianity and highly anti-clerical. He was on the extreme end of the Enlightenment. In France after the revolution, a new church was started, all in touch with the spirit of the age and got rid of belief in the Christian God. But it was not very popular and decades later most French would look on it as one of the horrors they endured.
Then there are people like Payne, for instance... he was a real deist. Openly hostile to Christianity and highly anti-clerical. He was on the extreme end of the Enlightenment. In France after the revolution, a new church was started, all in touch with the spirit of the age and got rid of belief in the Christian God. But it was not very popular and decades later most French would look on it as one of the horrors they endured.
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I don't see the issue in acknowledging the existence of deists.
Deists simply don't believe God is a personal God, who cares and or interacts with in anyway with the universe or people's lives.
If one looks at the reality of the world we live in, the deist God has a higher degree of probability than the Christian God, IMO.
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The question of deism is off topic. They are not Christians, this is a Christian site.
Deism worship Satan. They are the same as Scientology or any other brand of religion. They are not unique they are the same as the rest, false.
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Deists believe in a creator, atheists don't.
Deism is a natural religion. Deists believe in the existence of God, on purely rational grounds
They deny that God is a Spirit which he is. They deny it all
I would not be surprised if they embrace evoltuion like an atheist would.
Deism is 100% false! They run the same mentality as a naturalist like Charles Darwin.
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Discussion is limited to Christianity only on certain subforums. This subforum, the philosophy subforum, is not one of them.
So because someone doesn't believe the same as you, they worship satan?
Why don't you try finding evidence for your religion first?
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Thesite is called christian forum. So there for every single forum is Christian related.
Evidence for the almighty God?
He is supreme he offers none, ifyou are worthy he will tell you personally he exists.
Satan, evidence for him too? Go call on him, he will come to you. You might have a hard time spotting him if you do not know how...
Evidence for the almighty God?
He is supreme he offers none, ifyou are worthy he will tell you personally he exists.
Satan, evidence for him too? Go call on him, he will come to you. You might have a hard time spotting him if you do not know how...
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No, like I said, only some forums are restricted to Christians only.
Anecdotal evidence is not valid
Probably just confirmation bias.
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True Scotsman
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During my very brief deist phase, I told myself that whatever else God was it was rational. I told myself that a rational god would not hold it against me if I questioned it and if it created me with a reasoning mind then it expected me to use that mind. Ironically this was what eventually led me to atheism.
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