Deism

movement · 10 episodes

179Nephilim, The Flood, and Covenant 5 Feb 2024 31:24¶ 88 “Yeah. If there were a God, he wouldn’t do that. He would not interfere, he would not need to interfere, he would not care…” 31:33¶ 89 “The Enlightenment had its version of God, but it was not a God who could ever bring judgement. He was above such things, just…”

174In the Beginning... Again 4 Jan 2024 9:52¶ 33 “They didn’t look at this. The first generation was still sort of looking at, “Alright, there’s a god I guess. There’s a god of…” 12:47¶ 40 “Backing up along the way there’s a developing and maturing of the idea of linear history. When the Enlightenment came along, these guys looked…” 13:51¶ 42 “What they didn’t see, and what the next generation rather impolitely pointed out to them, was, “Uh, you’re borrowing Christian stuff. You still have…”

140All Things New 17 Oct 2022 16:57¶ 42 “It is a closed system, yeah. There’s no way out and there’s no way in. First of all, there’s nothing outside that can come…” 18:08¶ 48 “But here was Ben Franklin, who’s often been called a deist, and the other Founding Fathers who had leanings that way, like Jefferson and…” 18:28¶ 49 “They were okay with God intervening now and then maybe, but they rejected the Bible. They rejected Christ. They rejected the miraculous. But they…”

138Freedom, Miracles, and History 3 Oct 2022 42:47¶ 150 “Yeah, this is like Deism with a pause button. God sets up the natural laws that run the universe, and occasionally he interrupts them…” 42:11¶ 148 “I was acquainted with an educational movement in Christian circles that liked to talk about the providence of God. The problem was that none…”

117More Things Are Wrought By Prayer 9 May 2022 12:58¶ 42 “Does God work through means? Yeah, and sometimes those means are our prayers rather than anything in a domino sort of chain reaction, and…” 14:14¶ 44 “Here's the thing, then. If we admit that, are we saying, “Well, then God does miracles and anything is possible and we’re not sure…” 18:53¶ 59 “I had been taught to be a good Calvinist and believe in predestination, but my idea was, “So God planned everything and then let…”

83Baal and Astarte 13 Sep 2021 35:35¶ 125 “With regard to science, we in the West have come to look upon nature as a construct of physical forces interacting with one another…” 36:17¶ 126 “Now, if you’re a Christian you say, “And God can interrupt the program, hit the Interrupt button, and do something different. That’s called a…” 36:31¶ 127 “We’ve talked about this. This is deism, and Calvinism can fall into it if we do not balance our doctrine of predestination with a…”

68The Ark and the Angels 25 Apr 2021 32:12¶ 132 “Rigid Calvinists would say, “Oh yeah, that God, the God of the confessions, the God of scripture.” The Unitarians and probably Deists would say,…” 33:02¶ 135 “Yeah, the common square is left with a vague God who is unnamed, about whom we can say nothing in creedal form, which of…” 34:06¶ 138 “Again, Christians could appeal to this because their Christianity wasn’t as self-conscious as we would like, but on the other hand Enlightenment scholars could…”

59Happy New Year... Again 14 Feb 2021 11:42¶ 41 “God predestined everything in the beginning. He sort of planned it and wound it up like a clock and then he just lets it…” 12:04¶ 42 “For instance, you can pray that somebody can get over a cold because we know that can happen, but that someone could recover from…” 15:58¶ 53 “As I taught through this, again I got confusion on both sides. There were those there who understood that God controls everything, but they…”

28Prince of Egypt (part 2): Of Miracles and Magic 12 Jul 2020 20:45¶ 59 “I just wanted to tack onto our conversation about miracles that it necessitates an active view of God’s providence. Every time there’s a wave…” 23:18¶ 66 “I think I was in high school when I first heard Dr. R.J. Rushdoony do a tape message on providence, and it stayed with…” 23:40¶ 67 “We talk all about how God planned it, but we don’t talk about how God executes it. So we have this vision of God…”

15The Babylon Project 12 Apr 2020 33:35¶ 112 “This is called deism, and yet every time I get Christians agreeing with me. I’ve had young Christians understand and catch it and say,…” 32:50¶ 109 “I’ve actually had to explain this to Christians far too many times. I will go to people and say, “This is a trick question,”…” 33:19¶ 111 “No. There are lots of people in the room, and 6-day creationism and generic evolution are not the only players here. I’m asking you…”