Yeah, I grew up Christian, then went through an agnostic atheist phase, and now settled on deist.
Yeah, I grew up Christian, then went through an agnostic atheist phase, and now settled on deist.
A God that creates and then does not ever interact with His creation, even to provide the Act necessary to redeem His creatures if they fall?
A God that creates and then does not ever interact with His creation, even to provide the Act necessary to redeem His creatures if they fall?
Are you sure he doesn't interact?
Are you sure he doesn't interact?
That is my understanding of the Deist position: a clock maker who "sets the gears turning" and then steps aside. I am not a Deist. I affirm unabashedly that God absolutely does interact with His creation. I am a theist, not a Deist.
That is my understanding of the Deist position: a clock maker who "sets the gears turning" and then steps aside. I am not a Deist. I affirm unabashedly that God absolutely does interact with His creation. I am a theist, not a Deist.
@Anticlutch
because I have no faith you must prove to me these things that require faith!!!
The most relevant possible question.
>because I have no faith you must prove to me these things that require faith!!!
The most relevant possible question.
The Great Clockmaker.
The Great Clockmaker.
Hmm. So you sympathize with Newtonian mechanism as a reducible system for explaining basically everything?
Hmm. So you sympathize with Newtonian mechanism as a reducible system for explaining basically everything?
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