u/Green_Ladder_4904

I believe there is one God who is all-knowing and all-powerful. Beyond those attributes I do not know,including God’s relationship to the universe. If they are outside or inside of it and such.I believe God is best investigated through human reason and observation of the natural world rather than through special supernatural revelation. I do not believe prophets receive privileged divine revelation or that revealed scriptures are from the divine . I reject miracles, or at least consider them extremely unlikely, I reject all these things for practical reasons.

I do not believe God intervenes by violating natural laws. I am open to the possibility that God could act in the world through natural means. If God does communicate or guide humanity, I expect this to be sufficiently clear and accessible to everyone rather than dependent upon a particular prophet or religious tradition.i also do not know if we have souls or other beings like animals have them or if there is a afterlife or not.I do not affirm other supernatural beings existing besides God.

I consider myself a deist but I want to see if my thoughts are properly apart of it according to other deists!

Hi I want to talk to people who are gathas only and also people who practice it has monotheism.To understand there perspective.Because the only zs I talk to are more traditional for a lack of a better word.So I have never talked to someone who is apart of different groups/sects 🤷‍♂️ same with more esoteric Parsi groups.So please someone let me know how I can talk to one of these people or if you are one please message me 🙏

I believe in natural revelation, but what information are we supposed to discover about God through it? I personally believe that it only leads us to the basic belief that there is a God out there. However, people like Thomas Paine clearly believed that it tells us much more about our Creator.

It is only in the Creation that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh a universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God. Quote by Thomas Paine

I am tired of people usually theists there only critique of the idea of deism being that god doesn’t intervene and that appelry I am just trying to make a god up 😂

No I am trying to find out what god is using the best means we have available to us using our logic and reasoning that we all have and yes I do come at with some other world view assumptions like rejecting religious books being from god and such and prophets and that god would intervene through natural means only but still I believe in all of this for practical reasons expect for god intervening through natural reasons I believe that for logical reasons if they do intervene

Any way I wonder if you any of you guys Have gotten this to from other theists and thanks for the rant

I have a basic overview about the history of deism and I have started reading Thomas Paine age of reason but I need more book suggestions/online articles to learn about the theology

So please give me suggestions 🙏

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine revelation."

I have been identifying as a deist for some months now. At first, it started with being drawn to the idea of God not intervening in the world, and I really connected with that perspective, so I began calling myself a deist.

Now, though, I am more agnostic on the claim of whether God intervenes in the world through natural methods or not. I am still pretty closed off to the idea of God performing miracles or intervening in ways that break natural laws. I also do not know much about the nature of God or who God exactly is right now. At the moment, I believe in a God that is separate from the universe and all-knowing, and that is about it. I honestly need to look more into the idea of God in general and see what makes the most sense to me. I am also open to the idea of God wanting us to live moral lives on Earth.

I still think I would be considered a deist because I believe the best practical way to understand what God is comes through human reasoning and logic. I am not necessarily against revelation through books on paper; rather, I question it because I see how claims of revelation fail in the practical world. I am skeptical and against prophets being true.If God truly wanted to guide all of humanity, it seems to me that such guidance would be accessible to everyone in a universal way, something people could discover through looking, or God would communicate it directly to all people rather than through a select few individuals.

Here is a definition of deism that I really like:

“Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason, coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine revelation.”

I like this definition because I think it includes all forms of deism and does not automatically exclude versions where God may intervene.

I also wonder whether deism has any central theology beyond rejecting revealed religion and prophets while seeking knowledge of God through reason and nature. Is that essentially the core of deism, with everything else being more open-ended and left to personal reasoning about what makes the most sense?

Question 1: Is it accurate to call myself a deist based on my current beliefs?

Question 2: Is that an accurate definition of deism?

Question 3: Is that the unified theology behind deism?

I am making this post because I have been questioning whether I would still be considered a deist, and I have been thinking about this for a while. So please, if anyone can answer any one of these questions, or all of them, I would really appreciate it. 🙏