The Universe Next Door Chapter 3
Revelation
Deism denies that God can be known by _________________.
Alive, Well
Deism is indeed still _______ and ________.
Significance, Determinism
Human ________________ and mechanical ________________ are impossible bedfellows.
Galileo Galilei, Antiscientific
The case of _____________ _________________ (1564-1642) is famous and, in a quite distorted form, is often cited today as proof of the _______________________ nature of Christian theism.
Personal, Clockwork
WORLDVIEW QUESTION 3: Human beings, though _________________, are a part of the _______________________ of the universe.
Psalm 19:1
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands"
Divine Law, Ethical Principles
At best the Biblical narratives were illustrations of ____________ _______ from which ___________ __________________ could be derived.
Special Revelation, Reason
Authority for knowledge of the divine shifted from ______________ ___________________ found in scripture to the presence of _________________.
Personality
Cold Deism eliminates most features of ___________________ God is said to display.
Academics, Professionals, Probable Existence, Ignore
Cold version of Popular Deism: My guess, and it is only a guess, is that many well-educated people, especially _____________ and ___________________, would acknowledge the _______________ _____________ of such a being but would largely __________ his existence in their daily lives.
Affirmations
Deism is dependent on Christian theism for its ___________________.
Nature
Deism sees God only in "______________"
Intelligence, Morality, Community, Creativity, Grounded, Relationship, Own
Deists, of course, recognize that human beings have ________________, a sense of _____________, a capacity for ___________________ and for __________________. But none of these, while built into us as created beings, is ________________ in God's character. None has any special _________________ to God; each is on its _________.
Fascinated
Deists, though, were _________________ by history
Pluralistic
Each year the Western World, especially America, becomes more __________________ than the year before.
Conforming, Inherent
Evil, for a deist, is a result of human beings not ___________________ to their _____________ nature.
Words, Revelation, Prophets, Writers
For a theist, God has also revealed himself in ___________-in propositional, verbalized _______________________ to his ______________ and the various Biblical _____________.
Mere Christianity, Good, Evil
From the standpoint of Christian theism there is much to commend in this notion of natural law. C.S. Lewis bases his opening argument in __________ _________________ on the universality of the notion of ________ and ________.
Incarnate
God certainly did not become _____________________ in Jesus.
special revelation
God's revelation of himself in supernatural ways; the Bible
general revelation
God's revelation of himself through what he has created
Enlightenment Deism, France, England, Seventeenth, Eighteenth
Historically, the _____________________ ___________, held sway over the intellectual world of ___________ and ______________ from the late __________________ into the first half of the _________________ century.
Fallen, Moral Discernment
Human reason is not "___________" as in Christian theism; so when it is employed by people of good will, it results in ____________ ____________________.
Two, Reordering, Interested, Human, Clocklike
In Cold Deism the system of the universe is closed in _______ senses. It is closed to God's ___________________, for he is not "_________________" in it. The universe is closed to ____________ reordering because it is locked up in a ___________________ fashion. (The second implication is not much recognized by deists)
Closest, Afterlife, Further, Not
So warm deists, those ___________ to Christian theism, persisted in the notion of ___________, and cold deists, those ____________ away did ________.
Architect, Lover, Judge, Personal
The God who was discovered by the deists was an _______________, but not a ____________ or a __________ or ______________ in any way.
Legend
The course of Jewish history as recorded in the Bible was largely dismissed as ____________.
Thomas Jefferson, The Life and Morals of Jesus, Narratives, Miracles
The deists say miracles can't happen. ____________ ______________, for example, produced ______ ________ __________ _____________ ___ ____________, better known as the Jefferson Bible. His popular version excluded _____________ of all the ______________.
Related, Common
The early deists held a number of __________ views, but not all held every doctrine in _____________.
Sciences, God
Theology was thus considered the queen of the ______________, for theology was the science of _______.
Distant, Foreign, Alien
To the deist, then, God is ____________, _____________, ____________
Orthodox
Unlike Christian theism, there is no ________________ deism.
Transcendent, First Cause, Own, Immanent, Triune, Fully Personal, Sovereign, Human, Providential
WORLDVIEW QUESTION 1: A ____________________ God, as a ___________ ___________, created the universe but then left it to run on its ________. God is thus not _______________, not __________, not ____________ _________________, not ________________ over _____________ affairs, not _________________.
Cosmos, Determined, Uniformity, Cause, Effect, Closed, Miracle
WORLDVIEW QUESTION 2: The ___________ God created is ___________________, because it is created as a _____________________ of _________ and ___________ in a ____________ system; no ________________ is possible.
May, May Not, Physical
WORLDVIEW QUESTION 4: Human beings _______ or _______ ______ have a life beyond their _____________ existence.
Innate, Autonomous, Reason, Science, Universe, God, Cosmos, Normal
WORLDVIEW QUESTION 5: Through our ______________ and ___________________ human ____________ and the methods of _____________, we can not only know the ______________ but we can infer at least something of what ________ is like. The ____________, this world, is understood to be in its _____________ state; it is not fallen or abnormal.
Intuitive, General, Normal, Right
WORLDVIEW QUESTION 6: Ethics is ____________ or limited to ____________ revelation; because the universe is ______________, it reveals what is __________.
Linear, Determined, Understood, Reason, Data, Historians
WORLDVIEW QUESTION 7: History is ________, for the course of cosmos was _______________ at creation. Still the meaning of the events of history remains to be _________________ by the application of human ___________ to the _________ unearthed and made available to _____________.
Reason, Goal, God, Goal, Pleased
WORLDVIEW QUESTION 8: Cold deists use their own autonomous _______________ to determine their _______ in life; warm deists may reflect on their commitment to a somewhat personal _____ and determine their ________ in accordance with what they believe their God would be _____________ with.
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
Warm version of Popular Deism: KNOW THE 5 POINTS
Christian Smith
Wrote- Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Fenelon, Significantly
_____________ put his finger on a major problem within deism: human beings have lost their ability to act _____________________.
science
a word that traditionally means knowledge
omnipresence
attribute of God which is lost in deism
panentheism
belief that the universe is not God, but in God (page 61 in the FNs)
warm deism
closer to Christian theism
cold deism
closer to naturalism
autonomous
independent from anything else
moralistic therapeutic deism
popular deism
Alexander Pope
said, "Whatever is, is right."
determinism
the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will
deism
the theological belief that God exists and that He created the world, but that he currently stands completely distant from His creation
Benjamin Franklin
thought God had enough personality that he should be worshipped
