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The good watchmakerTheists believe in a transcendent personal creator that is maximally perfect and intervenes in the creation. Deists believe in a transcendent personal creator that is maximally perfect and does not intervene in the creation. One alleged problem for deism is that its God cannot be maximally perfect. A God that intentionally and knowingly creates a world replete with suffering and anguish yet fails to intervene to ame…
Encyclopedia · Wikipedia
DeismDeism is the belief, based solely upon logic and observation while rejecting any supernatural speculation, that a Supreme Being or God created the universe. As a philosophical position and rationalistic theology that rejects prophecies, revelations, and religious texts as legitimate or reliable sources of divine knowledge, Deism instead asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusive…
Book · DOAB
The American DeistsChallenging carvedinstone tenets of Christianity, deism began sprouting in colonial America in the early eighteenth century, was flourishing nicely by the American Revolution, and for all intents and purposes was dead by 1811. Despite its hasty demise, deism left a theological legacy. Christian sensibility would never be quite the same.Bringing together the works of six major American deists—Benjamin Franklin, Thoma…
Full text · Open Library
The Gospel its own witness: or, The holy nature and divine harmony, of the Christian religion, contrasted with the immorality and absurdity of deismImage · DPLA
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