> Some TE's do not believe that God intervened in
> any supernatural way and that everything has
> come down from the beginning by purely natural
> mechanisms. This view sounds very much like
> deism to me. (You TE's out there that disagree
> with my definition, please correct me.) I do
> not say that TE denies the supernatural elements
> of Christianity, only that it denies that super-
> natural mechanisms were used in Creation.
Deism is the belief that God never intervenes in the universe after the
initial creation. Any believer CANNOT be a deist by definition, because of
the resurrection which is clearly an intervention. Any TE who believes in
the resurrection is not a deist.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm