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If we think of the phrase spiritual but not religious as meaning a personal relationship with the divine outside of any established religious organizations, this phrase helps us to understand the spirituality of the deists. In this sense of the phrase, the deists were the first group of people in the modern Western world to be spiritual but not.
Overview:The word ' Deism' is derived from the Latin word for God: ' Deus.' Deism is a natural religion.
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Deists believe in the existence of God, on purely rational grounds, without anyreliance on revealed religion, religious authority, or holy text. Because of this, Deism isquite different from religions like,and. The latterare largely based on revelations that Jews, Christians and Muslims believe mostly came from God to prophet(s) who then taught it to humans.Welike to call natural religions by the title 'bottom-up' faiths because they were created by humans about God; we refer to revealed religions as'top-down' because their followers believe that they were created by God and delivered to humans.One faith that is opposite of Deism is Atheism, which is the lack of a belief in the existence of a god or gods. Another seen in the beliefs of most Theists who conceive of God as a deity who is all-present, all-powerful, all-loving, all-knowing and has a personal interest and involvement in every human on Earth.Deists:Do not accept the belief of mostthat God revealed himself tohumanity through the writings of the Hebrew Scriptures (a.k.a. Old Testament), and/or the Christian Scriptures (a.k.a.
New Testament), and/or the Qur'an, and/or other religious text.Disagree with who assert that there is no evidence of the existence of God.Many Deists reason that everything that exists has had a creator - from a wristwatch, to a television set, to the Internet itself. Thus it is logical thatthe universe itself must have been created by God:Thomas Paine concluded a speech shortly after the French Revolution with. 'God isthe power of first cause, nature is the law, and matter is the subject acted upon.' In his book ' The Age of Reason,' Thomas Paine wrote that:'. Everythingwe behold carries in itself the internal evidence that it did not makeitself.' This includes trees, plants, humans and other animals.
Thisconclusion carries us:'. To the belief of a first cause eternallyexisting.
This first cause, man calls God.' Antony Flew (1923-2010), a son of a Methodist minister was once a leadingAtheist. Later in life, he accepted the existence of God on the basis of design in theuniverse. In 2004, he became a Deist while still rejecting the gods promotedby thevarious revealed religions. He wrote:'How can a universe of mindlessmatter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self replication capabilities andcoded chemistry?' Sponsored link.123456789covered in this section:: 'Deism, God, the Big Bang, Matter, & Motion 'Reference used:. Thomas Paine, 'The Age of Reason,' Page29, at:Site navigation: hereCopyright 1999 to 2018 by Ontario Consultants on Religious ToleranceLatest update: 2018-MAR-07Author: B.A.
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