|
Users viewing this topic:
none
|
|
Login  | |
|
Deism - 8/6/2008 10:09:52 AM
|
|
|
beforHim
Posts: 18
Joined: 7/17/2007
Status: offline
|
I don't know were else to put this.
I've been reading Norman Geisler's "Christian Apologetics". In each chp. he discusses a worldview, giving some history, basic tenets, good things about it, what is lacking, and a final summary. (I'm actually quiet pleased at how much philosophy it covers and not just concrete, boring facts. Anyway...) Here's the actual post-
I got to the part on Deism. In the section about were deism is lacking, all it seemed to say was that "If there was a hod who cared enough to make the world, then he'd obviously intervene in the world". So really, unless I simply missed something, it seems he didn't give an real incoherence at all about deism. I've been thinking about deism since then, and I'm going to reread it, but in the meantime, I'd like to pose the question:
If deism is lacking, then why? If it' incoherent, then why?
Thx.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Deism - 8/6/2008 10:16:43 AM
|
|
|
Jhud
Posts: 7132
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: Lake Wobegon
Status: offline
|
Norman Geisler's point seems to impose certain expectations on God that wouldn't necessarily be true, though it would seem quite odd that He would go through all the trouble of creating the universe, life, and humanity, including our expectation of knowing God, and then simply check out.
_____________________________
Jack
“I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth”
William F. Buckley Jr. 1925-2008
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Deism - 8/6/2008 11:39:32 AM
|
|
|
abraxas
Posts: 196
Joined: 4/8/2008
Status: offline
|
I'm not familiar with any Deist doctrine (is there any?), but is it generally held that God has checked out for good?
(btw I have a mild deistic leaning myself, but I don't see it ever being more than mild, because surely Deism is all speculation?)
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Deism - 8/9/2008 3:05:30 PM
|
|
|
beforHim
Posts: 18
Joined: 7/17/2007
Status: offline
|
quote:
I'm not familiar with any Deist doctrine (is there any?), but is it generally held that God has checked out for good?
I'll go and ask at beliefnet.com, and some other places. Good question.
quote:
because surely Deism is all speculation?)
Yeah. Deism was born out of the enlightenment, whenever reason was thought to be able to solve everything.
|
|
|
|
 New Messages |
 No New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/ New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/o New Messages |
 Locked w/ New Messages |
 Locked w/o New Messages |
|
 Post New Thread
Reply to Message
Post New Poll
Submit Vote
Delete My Own Post
Delete My Own Thread
Rate Posts |
|
|
Forum Tools
Printable Version
