Deism

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Deism (Day-ism, or Dee-isn)^[1]^[2] or Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; derived from the Latin deus, meaning "god")^[3]^[4] is the philosophical position and rationalist Theology^[5] that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge, and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of the Supreme Being as the creator of the universe.^[3]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9] Or more simply stated, Deism is the belief in the existence of God solely based on rational thought without any reliance on revealed religions or religious authority.^[3]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] Deism emphasizes the concept of natural Theology (that is, God's existence is revealed through nature).^[3]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[9]

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↑ The Concise Oxford Dictionary Oxford University Press (1990).
↑ Deist – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-webster.com (2012).
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Harper, Leland Royce (2020). Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and the World pp. 47–68. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-7936-1475-9
↑ Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities pp. 51–52. Dordrecht and Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (2013). ISBN 978-94-007-5219-1
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 The World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia pp. 661–664. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing Group, imprint of ABC-Clio (2015). ISBN 978-1-4408-3027-3
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A system of belief which posits a God's existence as the cause of all things, and admits His perfection, but rejects Divine revelation and government, proclaiming the all-sufficiency of natural laws. the Socinians, as opposed to the doctrine of the Trinity, were designated as deists. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries deism became synonymous with "natural religion," and deist with "freethinker." England and France have been successively the strongholds of deism. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, the "faTher of deism" in England, assumes certain "innate ideas," which establish five religious truths:
1. that God is;
2. that it is man's duty to worship Him;
3. that worship consists in virtue and piety;
4. that man must repent of sin and abandon his evil ways;
$ that divine retribution eiTher in this or in the next life is certain. He holds that all positive religions are eiTher allegorical and poetic interpretations of nature or deliberately organized impositions of priests.}}
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[1] The Concise Oxford Dictionary Oxford University Press (1990).

[2] Deist – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-webster.com (2012).

[Harper_2020-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Harper, Leland Royce (2020). Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and the World pp. 47–68. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-7936-1475-9

[Peters_2013-4] Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities pp. 51–52. Dordrecht and Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (2013). ISBN 978-94-007-5219-1

[Smith_2015-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 The World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia pp. 661–664. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing Group, imprint of ABC-Clio (2015). ISBN 978-1-4408-3027-3

[Stanford_2017-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=encyclopaedia }}

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[JE-8] 8.0 ^8.1 A system of belief which posits a God's existence as the cause of all things, and admits His perfection, but rejects Divine revelation and government, proclaiming the all-sufficiency of natural laws. the Socinians, as opposed to the doctrine of the Trinity, were designated as deists. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries deism became synonymous with "natural religion," and deist with "freethinker." England and France have been successively the strongholds of deism. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, the "faTher of deism" in England, assumes certain "innate ideas," which establish five religious truths:
that God is;

that it is man's duty to worship Him;

that worship consists in virtue and piety;

that man must repent of sin and abandon his evil ways;
$ that divine retribution eiTher in this or in the next life is certain. He holds that all positive religions are eiTher allegorical and poetic interpretations of nature or deliberately organized impositions of priests.}}

[9] that God is;

[10] that it is man's duty to worship Him;

[11] that worship consists in virtue and piety;

[12] that man must repent of sin and abandon his evil ways;

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[14] that God is;

[15] that it is man's duty to worship Him;

[16] that worship consists in virtue and piety;

[17] that man must repent of sin and abandon his evil ways;

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