A Deist wrote this?

[radorth]

Have you ever noticed how atheists and unbelievers like to tell us that those who freed us from the oppressions of the Middle Ages, and led the Enlightenment were deists like Voltaire?

That isn't true. The Enlightenment was led by Protestant Christians, as were the later abolitionists, but that's another thread.

We were recently assured that the man who wrote the following was another of these enlightened deists:

"From this estate of death, Jesus Christ restores all mankind to life...By one man death came and by one man came the resurrection of the dead"

"And the righteous our saviour says, shall go into eternal life."

"The law of works then, in short, is that law which requires perfect obedience, without any remission or abatement, so that by that law a man cannot be justified, without an exact performance of every tittle..."

That's just a sample of what he wrote-- there is much more. What he wrote is exactly what I believe, and how I would speak about the NT, why Jesus came, etc. So am I a Deist? Hardly

Also what is the difference between this man's beliefs and the typical "fundy"?

So calling this man a deist is just atheist ignorance, or more likely historical revisionism