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deism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| deism #1- Prime Reality | God is infinite, impersonal, first cause, clockmaker |
| deism #2- External Reality | created as an objective uniformity of cause and effect in a closed system- clockwork |
| deism #3- Human Beings | personal but still clockwork, considered to be an agent who can effect changes |
| deism #4- Death | there could be existence after death or there could not be |
| deism #5- Knowledge | possible though human reason, people can know both nature and the clockmaker through nature but there is no revelation from scripture |
| deism #6- Morality | human reason and intuition allow ethical knowledge |
| deism #7- History | made by human choices and generally advances to good society |
| deism #8- Core Commitments | to use human reason to promote human flourishing |