Question

I would like to know everyone's opinions on deism. What do you think?

Answer 1

LOL, Liz I thought you were an atheist? Still are?

Anyway regarding your question; deism is an interesting concept, though I do not see how they believe a God that started it all, then just left it all alone. The reasoning seems purposeless, atheism even makes more rational and logical sense than deism to me. At least in my own opinion that is.

Answer 2

God is real. Its in the Bible.. all you have to do it look for it. :) You need faith to know that their is a god. Some people just want proof when God wants us to belive in him...well also Faith isn't in possession in everyone. But you need to believe and have faith then you do know. Read the Bible that helps a lot.. trust me. :)

Answer 3

The Bible is oblivious written by mankind, understanding that we now know that the bible is not from divine origins, thus it cannot essentially "prove" God. Sure you can say the bible was "inspired" by God, but that makes the claim more bogus. There is not a single shred of evidence that proves it was "inspired."

There is a major difference in faith, and blind trust. The Torah, and Qur'an both pride themselves by being of divine revelation. If the Bible cannot claim authority in this area but the Torah or Qur'an can explain why I should put faith into the Bible?

Answer 4

Like you said yourself there is faith and blind faith...If you don't have faith in it why should i believe you?

Answer 5

@Opcode² are you @Opcode ?
Yes, I consider myself an atheist still, though extremely weak.

@Rookies2121 I live in England where the Christianity is the mainstream religion. I have heard every argument for the God the Bible suggests, and I find them too flawed to put my faith in. (I am not a person to put blind faith into anything @Opcode² can tell you that.) Might I add I have read the Bible multiple times, way to contradictory for my taste, and lacks any linear story path, and fails to capture my interest.

I have no belief in @Opcode² rather I acknowledge him, he is physical I can prove his existence. Meanwhile the biblical God lacks any proof.

Answer 6

Rookies you put up a weak argument. You can't say god is real because of the bible. That's like me saying Shiva is real because of the Baghdad Gita.

Answer 7

LE, You are more agnostic.

Answer 8

@LanguageEnthusiast
Yes, I am Opcode. I thought you had your GCSE exams coming up, so I didn't reply to your email so you could study. :-P

@KingCollins
Liz, whole heartily denies the existence of a God, without any proof. (Which she claim has to be empirical to prove anything.) I am not one to speak for her, but she is an atheist.
Defiantly an atheist, just not a gnostic atheist like you.

BTW, the levels of atheism are:
Agnostic Atheism = Does not believe in a God for lack of proof, and holds that proving God is impossible.
Gnostic Atheism = Does not believe in a God, claims proof for that God does not exist.
(There are two other, non-important though.)

Agnostic Atheism is the most common type of atheist.

Answer 9

All religions maybe not all are all based in the Bible aren't they...some don't even use it.. Is the Bible was inspired by god and you won't belive in it? Who are you truely believing in? It can't just be logic nor people becuase we all make our mistakes don't we? So who should we? the Bible is like a letter that god gave to us by humans who wrote it.. the same was a secretary writes letters for the person he or she is working for.

Answer 10

@Rookies2121
What makes you think we "need" belief? Atheism is a personal relationship with reality. Not some imaginary being.

Answer 11

Well then that tells me no one exactly care for God..who made us..wait of course your going to say that no there isn't one..so then whats the point in arguing?

Answer 12

look sorry but come on we all need to belive in something....and i belive in the bible

Answer 13

@InspiredAtheist Reality makes mistakes don't they? I mean come on scientists can't even predict the exact time the Earth was made..well how old it is... God he can, he even has every star named and he knows all of them..

Answer 14

@Rookies2121 that's why we have skepticism to not make mistakes. Meanwhile the Bible has so many contradictions, and scientific errors. Also scientists have an estimated time of how old the Earth was I'm guessing you haven't taken any science classes? What do stars prove about god?

Answer 15

God this has gotten so off topic, @LanguageEnthusiast just wanted to know the general opinion on deism, not anything else. :-P

Answer 16

No by all means, please keep discussing I find it rather interesting.

Answer 17

Most of you are saying you need "Faith" to believe in god, what if I told you there is proof God exists in The Qur'an. Would you believe me? If someone is interested, please @ me to this post, it's 7 days old so I don't think anyone is altered to it.

Answer 18

@InspiredAtheist Like the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old.... But like you said estimated guesses.. Why can't they get specific detail? Look in Psalm 147:4: " He is counting the number of the stars; All of them he calls by [their] names."
Have you ever heard about the city of Nineveh? Remember what God said what would happen to it? In Zephaniah 2:13: "He will stretch out his hand toward the north and destroy As·syr′i·a, And he will make Nin′e·veh desolate, as dry as a desert."

(Taken by the Watchtower of May 2014) So, seventh century B.C.E., evidently some 15 years after God made his prediction, the Babylonians and the Medes attacked and overthrew Nineveh. Additionally,God specified in advance that Nineveh, Did this advance notice prove to be accurate?Yes. Although the city and its suburbs may have covered some 200 square miles (518 sq km), the conquerors did not preserve and make use of the city, as might be expected. Instead, they destroyed it. Could any political analyst have predicted those events with such accuracy? Who would be so daring as to announce—300 years in advance—the exact name and specific ancestry of the conqueror?

God announced that a man named Cyrus would launch the conquest of a nation. This
Cyrus would also free Jewish captives and support the reconstruction of their holy temple. Additionally,God foretold that Cyrus’ battle strategy would include the drying up of rivers and indicated that gates would be left open, facilitating the conquest. (Isaiah 44:27–45:2) Were the many details of God’s prophecy fulfilled accurately? Historians agree that this conquest by Cyrus actually occurred.Cyrus’ army employed the tremendous engineering feat of diverting one of Babylon’swaterways in effect,drying up rivers. What is more, the army entered the city through gates that had been left open.Cyrus there after freed the Jewish people and declared that they could rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. That was unusual,for Cyrus did not worship the God of the Jews. Who but God could have predicted the details of those historical events?