Desert Snake
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Do Deists worship G-d? If so, isn'y G-d essentially, gone, for Deists? Left the creation? So why worship, or even aknowledge G-d?
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Do Deists worship G-d? If so, isn'y G-d essentially, gone, for Deists? Left the creation? So why worship, or even aknowledge G-d?
Just like with adherents to every other belief, I'm sure there are many different kinds of Deists. Like Atheism and Theism, it is an incredibly general term.Do Deists worship G-d? If so, isn'y G-d essentially, gone, for Deists? Left the creation? So why worship, or even aknowledge G-d?
Makes sense.If by worship you mean what most people do, then no. It is not a religion.
If you mean something more like "learn about and appreciate", then maybe yes. But not necessarily.
Tom
There are some Deists on the forum. They can answer if they want. If a Deist doesn't like my question, whatever, I'm not interested in their opinion anyway, the OP is very basic and straightforward.Just like with adherents to every other belief, I'm sure there are many different kinds of Deists. Like Atheism and Theism, it is an incredibly general term.
Why would a Deist not like your question? It seems to be a reasonable one.Makes sense.
There are some Deists on the forum. They can answer if they want. If a Deist doesn't like my question, whatever, I'm not interested in their opinion anyway, the OP is very basic and straightforward.
Do Deists worship G-d? If so, isn'y G-d essentially, gone, for Deists? Left the creation? So why worship, or even aknowledge G-d?
Just like with adherents to every other belief, I'm sure there are many different kinds of Deists. Like Atheism and Theism, it is an incredibly general term.
Do Deists worship G-d? If so, isn'y G-d essentially, gone, for Deists? Left the creation? So why worship, or even aknowledge G-d?
We (humans) simply do not know anything beyond the moment of death. We can't answer those questions with absolute truths or facts. There is not a shred of proof of anything beyond death. Yes that is a grim outlook, but at least it is a factual one.
Instead, live for the here and now. Lead a moral life that is full of compassion. Do that, and if there is an afterlife, surely morality is rewarded over immorality. Of course, that is also speculation...
Must say i like the perspective and perhaps the final conclusion which i most certainly
agree with .... Perhaps those few of us who have died and returned can at least
offer the prospect of Hope ...
I'm not saying there's nothing to NDEs, but I'm very skeptical since they could be simply the mind processing trauma. I don't know of any where the one experiencing it had an out of body experience at some other location which was later verified. In any case, as you suggest, when it comes to death, naked hope is all we really have.
Grin, you make me smile ... I who had the NDE ( pronounced Brain Dead for 3 days ...)
was kinda sceptical too, until the prophesy i was given during the NDE proved true within
6 months .... that more than anything affirmed it as a real soul memory event ...
As a medic, before my experience i also considered these reports to be some firing of
amygdala .
Though if true i wonder how the memory can be stored in an apparently none functioning
brain ...
As this memory of the death experience is still more real and vivid, than what i did yesterday.
it remains for me a real event .... not that you or anyone else is required to accept that .
Shalom (Peace)
Totally agree. Ya a true pagan at heart. (imo)It depends on the individual deist.
I firmly believe in and worship God. I thank Him for giving me life and allowing me to have a family, home, etc. Such are the prayers of many deists...prayers of gratitude instead of begging for stuff. I (we) believe that if you want something, you need to get off your butt and work for it. Now allow me to answer some commonly asked questions:
1. Has God left us? No one knows.
2. Does God intervene? No one knows.
3. Do miracles really happen? No one knows.
4. Does God even care about us? No one knows.
5. Is there an afterlife? No one knows.
The answer to every religious question about the "unknown" is going to be the same, regardless of religion. We (humans) simply do not know anything beyond the moment of death. We can't answer those questions with absolute truths or facts. There is not a shred of proof of anything beyond death. Yes that is a grim outlook, but at least it is a factual one.
Instead, live for the here and now. Lead a moral life that is full of compassion. Do that, and if there is an afterlife, surely morality is rewarded over immorality. Of course, that is also speculation...
Totally agree. Ya a true pagan at heart. (imo)
I know. Many pagans hold that same view. Some believe in deities that dont interact. I can see in some ways it being similar to deist thought.He's responding to a thread directed at Deists..
Interesting, what was the prophesy? Or more accurately, what was prophesied, and what then happened?
Smile, ah ok, fair enough question ...
Up there (or in that place where the death experience occurred) I met my Grandfather whom
had passed on when i was still at school ... He Indicated he was looking forward to Grandmother
arriving Soon ... (she was at the time visiting My Parents in NZ, and my Uncle in Miami and generally
very active) so impending demise was in no way anticipated ...
3 months after my experience a cancer was diagnosed, she passed on 6 months after my trauma.
Smile, ah ok, fair enough question ...
Up there (or in that place where the death experience occurred) I met my Grandfather whom
had passed on when i was still at school ... He Indicated he was looking forward to Grandmother
arriving Soon ... (she was at the time visiting My Parents in NZ, and my Uncle in Miami and generally
very active) so impending demise was in no way anticipated ...
3 months after my experience a cancer was diagnosed, she passed on 6 months after my trauma.
/There is clinical death (brain dead but the body lives on, via life support or on its own) /
This was mine until the machines were turned off, some time later being wheeled
to the morgue i awoke sat up demanded they not give me any drugs and frightened
the poor nurse, who rushed of to inform the neurosurgeon
No offence taken, quite the opposite