Sentences with phrase «deistic ones»
Jefferson's «self - evident» truths were deistic ones: The pursuit of happiness is understood to be what God intended for humans from the creation, in contrast to traditional Christianity's understanding of the pre-eminent importance of glorifying God.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT: Mr McEwan would seem to be right (i) in his depiction of Professor Ayala's somewhat deistic leanings concerning the role of the creator (see our Cutting Edge column July 2010), (ii) that we, with Ayala, affirm that physical, chemical and biological evolution is a well attested fact, and (Hi) that the idea that this process is a chance one does not work.
It usually starts with some generic Deistic notion of God and then quickly narrows to one of the multitudes of theistic belief systems such as one particular strain of Christianity.
Even though we have no evidence there could be a first cause deistic creator god but it can't be the biblical one due to logical inconsistancies.
If one would want to indict God for doing evil, à la Job or Ivan Karamazov, then a deistic God, for example, would have only one crime to answer for: creation itself.
Belief in a deistic God and one's overall belief in God were not significantly related to any psychiatric symptoms.»
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.
Today's theological truth is that is that sophisticated Americans tend to oscillate incoherently between Deistic personalism — or feverish concern for one's own «autonomy» — and completely impersonal pantheism.
I was simply noting that some of the key framers including the first five presidents grew up as Christians and became more Deistic later in life, and that one of the characteristics of Deism in that time was not recognizing the divinity of Christ, even if one followed Christ's teachings.