Sentences with phrase «deists believe»

But anyway, Stephen Hawking explicitly rejects the concept of god, even an abstract impersonal god of the sort Deists believe in.

The only difference is that Deists believe that a God created the universe, atheists believe no God was required to create the universe.

Keep in mind the creator god that the Deists believed in (ala Madison, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, etc.) was quite different than the God fundamentalists believe in today.

Deists believed that a supreme being (god if you will) created the universe and then removed him / herself from the equation.

Not exact matches

But I reached a point where I could no longer believe in the christian god and became a deist.

the problem with deists is that you claim to believe in god... which is incorrect!

Deists generally did not believe in the divinity of Christ and did not believe in a God that played an active role in people's lives.

franklin was a deist (believe in a god, but one that didn't meddle in human affairs.

Some were indeed deist and as a whole they believed God that would set this country apart from all other nations.

You can't really believe that atheists, agnostics, deists and other religions can not determine right from wrong because they do not believe in an objective morality, don't be so obtuse.

a deist does not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.

any so - called «Christian» who is believes in evolution is 1) a Deist and 2) very definitely not a Christian.

While I believe there are no gods, I am not as certain there is no deist god as I'm certain the gods of the big religions are bunk.

I believe there is no god, but the deist point of view is sensible.

I certainly do not believe that all deists are theists, but all theists are indeed deists.

Deists of that time generally did not believe in the divinity of Christ nor did they believe in the supernatural aspects of the Bible.

The Founding Fathers were Deists, they believed in God but HATED and were suspect of religion.

I thought I was an atheist until the age of 45 when I realized that I was a Deist: I believe there was a God but that He / She is long gone and has no direct influence on anything that happens today.

«They» came here, played around with our DNA and then left... For those who believe that God still exist, it's their right to believe just as it's the right of an atheist to not believe, just as it's a deist's right to believe.

But he may have believed in something more like the Deists» impersonal god as the «uncaused cause» of the universe.

When a Catholic enters into the public realm, he, too, becomes a Deist and believes that theology is irrelevant.

I suspect most Americans are Deists... which in and of itself carries several variations The short list is strict Deist; no involvement by God in daily things (wind the clock and let it tick down), Christian Deist; believeing in the goodness of Jesus Christ and following his ways, but not acknowleding his divinity (same could be said for any number of historical figures), and those Deists who believe God does intervene on occasion in the world.

Lion, many of the most prominent founding fathers were deists, that is, they believed that a god created them, but that god was not interested in human affairs, there are no miracles and that Christ, while a fine teacher was no more than another human.

After two months of being bedridden in severe pain, I cried out to God, even though I was a One who believes in the existence of an impersonal God.deist deist at the time (I had gone from an agnostic atheist to a deist in college).

Many of the Founders were Deists - they believed that there was some sort of Higher Power, but that was about it.

Depends on how you define God, most likely he was a deist but did not believe in the exact Christian God of the Bible.

I have that same situation, except I'm a Deist (someone who believes in A god, but doesn't know which one).

Ran across many interesting quotes from our founding fathers who are so oft cited today as deists who believed in separation of church and state...

They were Deists who did not believe the bible was true.

His posts have improved slightly in other areas, but this little kid's game really thrills him to giggles, so just remember he's a side - stepping deist who does not believe in literal Bible stuff.

John Jay and Alexander Hamilton were Christians, Thomas Paine and James Madison were Deists (believed in a God, but not the divinity of Christ who was a respected teacher of morality).

1) America was founded by deists (men who believed in an all - powerful creator but not the Christian god).

A Deistic god that has no interaction with the universe is by definition useless to believe in even if one exists, and no I am not claiming you are a deist.

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I can't speak to the other issues, Chad, but In can tell you that the founding father were predominately deists and did not believe in organized religion.

I have been a atheist for about a year now I was a theist / deist / christian when i believed and had good ways to rationalize it with the bible.

A deist, too, believes in a supernatural intelligence, but one whose activities were confined to setting up the laws that govern the universe in the first place.

If AGW climastrology is a religion with CO2 as its god, «luke warmers» are the deists who believe in it, but see its involvement as minimal.