RE: On Hell and Forgiveness
August 31, 2018 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2018 at 12:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 31, 2018 at 12:42 pm)robvalue Wrote:Not really, it's just that the term atheism arose as a response primarily to theism. Historical tick of semantics (greek, specifically). If people were primarily deists when theism was articulated, we might have called it adeism....which would also rule out theism by default. If you don't believe in gods, deities - not theities.....you don't believe in personal actively participating gods, their attendant theosophy.(August 31, 2018 at 12:39 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Again, that would be deism.
Theism is a belief in a personal and interceding deity which actively participates in the world and our lives. It is a comment on a type of god and what god means defined by further beliefs, additional to and from deism.
That would mean you could be a deist and an atheist.
Quote:I'm not sure where your definition comes from, but I've not seen it before. Anyhow, if you define it that way, then sure. Deism isn't theismIt comes from the difference between a deistic concept of god and a theistic concept, comparative religion/myth.
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