2007-02-13 11:30:37 · 12 answers · asked by bloomingflower 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm a Deist.
Thomas Jefferson, a Deist, considered himself a Christian, in the sense that he followed the morals of Jesus, but rejected miracles and Jesus's divinity. He cut the sayings of Jesus out of a Bible and pasted them into another book; this book is available today as "The Jefferson Bible".
Deists believe that God created the universe, but does not interfere. They do not believe in prophets, messiahs, or holy books. So in this respect, no, you could not be a Deist, then turn around and accept the Bible as the "Word of God".
2007-02-13 12:22:04 · answer #1 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deists do NOT beleive in revealed religions. Deists believe only that God can be found in nature. Not in the Bible.
Christians believe in the Bible, and christianity is a revealed religion. Ergo Christians are NOT Deists.
I am a Deist. I am NOT a Christian.
2007-02-13 11:56:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A deist is a theist who doesn't believe in miracles, revelation, or divine intervention. There are lots of Christian deists. Other Christians may think they're heretics, though.
BTW, deists do not necessarily believe in a distant God. They may conceive of God as an immanent natural process rather than as a supernatural being.
A recent Christian systematic theology of this type was Charley Hardwick's "Events of Grace."
2007-02-13 11:36:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That doesn't make any sense. A deist accepts that there is a god but sees no use for religion. Christianity is a religion. So how could they ever go together?
2007-02-13 11:33:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. A deist is someone who believe that there may be a God, but he is not concerned with human affairs and indifferent to our plight. some deist go as far as to believe that the ultimate purpose of existence may not be human life at all...
Christians believe that they are the center of the universe because God gave them Jesus to save us, so we mnust be important.
They are mutually exclusive ideas.
And both wrong, IMHO.
2007-02-13 11:34:29 · answer #5 · answered by hyperhealer3 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, because a Deist is someone who believes in an impersonal god who just created the universe and then stepped back and doesn't intervene and can't be known. Christians, on the other hand such as myself, believe that God does intervene in His creation and that He can be known by faith in Jesus. www.equip.org
2007-02-13 11:34:00 · answer #6 · answered by jamesdkral 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Errr...deists believe in a God...God is a deity...and Christians believe in God.
Christians must be deists...
2007-02-13 11:33:12 · answer #7 · answered by WithUnveiledFaces 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, it is absolutely impossible. Deism believes in a god that doesn't interact with the world, while christianity believes the opposite.
2007-02-13 11:36:11 · answer #8 · answered by Alucard 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You can have beliefs from both faiths, yes. If that is what makes the most sense to you.
2007-02-13 11:33:05 · answer #9 · answered by I'm Still Here 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I understand it, the terms are contradictory and mutually exclusive.
2007-02-13 11:33:24 · answer #10 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋