Deism

The question of Evolution and Biblical worldview has been an enormous debate for an extremely long time. A variety people reject science and what it teaches about theory and facts, and others like to look our world through a biblical lens. A number of us believe in the theory of Evolution and others have their own truths. All of us have diverse opinions of how we interpret the world. Philosophy assists us to comprehend things different perspectives; it allows one to ruminate then arrive at some…

power that would enable humans to have a better understanding of the universe and mankind. Europe’s political, social, religious, and economic views had major changes. The new way of thinking led to the development of a new religion called Deism. Deist believed in a higher power that made the universe like a machine. They also strongly believed that human happiness and achievement was the source of enlightenment. Humanitarianism…

Enlightenment, however, critical thinkers like Rene Descartes questioned everything. The things that they could explain they accepted as truth, but the things that they could not they rejected. In this, they lost faith, substituting reason instead. This made deism a more rational religion, but this way of thinking did not follow all of God's teachings. Hebrews 11 focuses on the importance of faith, saying that "faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This…

In the book “Half Truths”, written by Adam Hamilton, a senior pastor at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, Pastor Hamilton questions whether common phrases used by people are actually true or Christian. Phrases such as “everything happens for a reason, God helps those who help themselves, and God said it, I believe it, that settles it.” Pastor Hamilton uses scriptural references from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Bible to break down these phrases and clarify the meaning…

The route the first Americans took to North America is still a controversy. One of the most widely known is that they traveled to Beringia from Siberia on a land bridge that was between Asia and North America. This theory is that there used to not be water between these two continents, and the first people to come to America was on accident, due to exploration for hunting purposes. If this were true it would be an answer to one of Americas longest standing questions. Where did the Native…

nicknamed “Virgil” by his classmates due to his skills in Greek and Latin1 and his ability to solve adults’ puzzles and enigmas in the newspapers. At college he met Jacob Eames, a deist and a very skeptic person. He persuades Judson to believe in deism (the belief of the existence of…

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten; either write something worth reading or do something worth writing” (Franklin Quotes). Benjamin Franklin famously said these words and he made sure he wasn’t forgotten. He is famous for being one of America’s Founding Fathers, tying a key to a kite, inventing the bifocals and for his literary works. His most famous one being: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. This book has” became itself the most widely read autobiography…

who made us and what goes beyond the stars” (3). This sentence is an example of the world being a whole and the poem is suggesting that this “we” (3) is the whole human race and it 's something everyone believes and questions. This helps support the deism factor of having a higher power with it being “beyond the stars” (3). Having this statement supports the idea of the higher power not being a part of us, but something bigger and maybe even better because of…

In the beginning “In the beginning,” the famous first words of the most sold book in the world. The purpose of this literature review is not to enforce any of the beliefs on how the universe and it 's inhabitants came to be, but merely provide the evidence that both sides have used in order to defend the beliefs of each side. Creation Creationism, the perspective that the universe and all it 's inhabitants were created out of nothing by God (Triune God), or at least by an intelligent…

The events across the Atlantic caused the British colonies to experience a surge in population, changes in material culture and a new way of thinking and new ideas. The European Enlightenment, the slave trade, consumer revolution and European Pietism helped to transform the Britain's American colonies. There was also political and religious conflict in the colonies. The conflicts ultimately lead to the Great War for Empire. England was also affected by events in the colonies, such as the Seven…