I can't seem to remember who came up with the theory..
2007-02-27 05:09:39 · 13 answers · asked by Robin 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Deism. What Washington, Franklin, Jefferson and others of that time believed.
2007-02-27 05:12:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-18 11:58:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's generally attributed to deists as "The Great Clockwinder" theory, i.e. that God wound the clock and stepped back to watch it tick away. I don't know that anyone has asserted a specific individual as the first to conceive the notion of an indifferent god. I think it's probably been around in essence as long as people have believed in gods.
2007-02-27 05:15:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a "Deist" idea. The Theists believe that god made the world and is involved in it (answers prayers, intervenes etc), while the Deists believe god made the world and then 'stepped back' so to speak and let things just play themselves out.
2007-02-27 05:13:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called "Deism" Short answer, no one knows the founder.
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...Perhaps the first use of the term deist is in Pierre Viret's "Instruction Chrestienne" (1564), reprinted in Bayle's "Dictionnaire" entry "Viret". Viret, a Calvinist, regarded deism as a new form of Italian heresy...
...In England, the term deist first appeared in Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy" (1621).
Lord Herbert of Cherbury (d. 1648) is generally considered the "father of English deism", and his book "De Veritate" (1624) the first major statement of deism. Deism flourished in England between 1690 and 1740, at which time Matthew Tindal's "Christianity as Old as the Creation" (1730), or 'the deist's Bible', gained much attention. Later deism spread to France, notably via the work of Voltaire, to Germany, and to America.
Deistic thinking has existed since ancient times (e.g., in philosophers such as Heraclitus) and in many cultures. The word deism is generally used to refer to the movement toward natural theology or freethinking that occurred in 17th-century Europe, and specifically in Britain....
2007-02-27 05:15:13 · answer #5 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is truth to this, if understood correctly. God operates through those who trust & obey God. God doesn't do things so much without our supplications, praise, worship, prayers & obedience.
Thomas Jefferson is a Christian & gifted in the prophetic & knew this. Jefferson didn't deny Jesus Christ his Lord & Savior, & Son of the Living God.
God created, then on the 7th day, God rested. Operated through mankind. Mankind was King of the earth until the fall. Then our sins separate us from God. To be reborn, born of the Spirit, made whole again in Christ is entering into Gods rest, & also are kings unto the King of kings & Lord of lords. That is when Christ Kingdom works through the body of Christ.
The body of Christ isn't a religious organization, it is those born of God through faith in Christ.
2007-02-27 05:26:22 · answer #6 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Deism was frowned upon as atheism is today. They knew religion was a hoax but did not have the big bang theory.
2007-02-27 05:24:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a Deist concept, but I don't know who first came up with it.
Thomas Jefferson was a Deist. He called himself a Christian, but only in as much as he followed the morals of Jesus. He denied Jesus' divinity.
2007-02-27 05:28:51 · answer #8 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Deism. I don't know who came up with it exactly, but I know Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and some others were Deists.
2007-02-27 05:13:17 · answer #9 · answered by Honest 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Deism.
2007-02-27 05:14:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋