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deist::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deistic |
deist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | nonreligious person |
| Derivation | deism |
Examples of deist
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Deist said the recent rains left the bridge project two weeks behind schedule.
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In all probability, there is no such thing as any creator in the deist sense.
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It refers to a deist who believes in the moral teachings-but not divinity-of Jesus.
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The term deist became rarely used, but deist beliefs, ideas, and influences did not.
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Our founding fathers were probably not all Christian, but they were most certainly deist.
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However, a deist rejects the idea that this god intervenes in the world.
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Thomas Jefferson was a deist, as were many other of the founding fathers.
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Since Herbert's De Veritate, innate ideas had been the foundation of deist epistemology.
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Experts dispute whether Hume was a deist, an atheist, or something else.
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- Of or relating to deism
- A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it
- (deism) the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation
- Deism is a religious and philosophical belief that a supreme being created the universe, and that this (and religious truth in general) can be determined using reason and observation of the natural world alone, without the need for either faith or organized religion. ...
- (Deism) The religious philosophy and movement that became prominent in England, France, and the United States in the 17th and 18th centuries that rejects supernatural events (prophecy, miracles) and divine revelation prominent in organized religion, along with holy books and revealed religions ...
- (Deism) A belief in the existence of a god on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation (distinguished from theism).
- (Deism) Dictionary: a movement or system of thought advocating natural religion based on human reason rather than revelation, emphasizing morality, and in the eighteenth century denying the interference of the creator with the laws of the universe. ...
- (deism) A philosophical viewpoint appearing in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and in France in the eighteenth century. Deists hold that although God created the universe and its laws, He then removed Himself from any ongoing interaction with the material world.
- (deism) a belief in a Creator God that denies His intervention in the history of the universe since its creation
