The Universe Next Door Chapter 3

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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


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