A Deist From Seminary?

[Neo Deist]

I have been asked how or why I went to seminary when I am a deist. When I started, I was a Baptist, which was the religion I grew up in. At seminary, I started asking some serious questions as I learned more about theology. By the time I graduated with a Doctor of Theology (Th.D.), I was a full fledged deist.

I continued at seminary because I wanted to learn as much as I could about theology, world religions, and even ancient languages such as Hebrew and Koine Greek. I also studied Latin because that was the language of the Christian Church for centuries. It helps to understand the source for the KJV on many accounts (the Latin Vulgate).

I became ordained because I have family and friends that wanted me to be able to officially marry them, per state law.

So yes, I am an ordained minister with a Th.D. that identifies as a modern day deist, that rejects the notion of any divinely inspired holy book (all man made), the supernatural (no devil, demons, or magic), and believes in God solely because of my personal observations of both nature here on earth, and the study of astronomy.

I am an odd ball...

 

[David1967]

I have been asked how or why I went to seminary when I am a deist. When I started, I was a Baptist, which was the religion I grew up in. At seminary, I started asking some serious questions as I learned more about theology. By the time I graduated with a Doctor of Theology (Th.D.), I was a full fledged deist.

I continued at seminary because I wanted to learn as much as I could about theology, world religions, and even ancient languages such as Hebrew and Koine Greek. I also studied Latin because that was the language of the Christian Church for centuries. It helps to understand the source for the KJV on many accounts (the Latin Vulgate).

I became ordained because I have family and friends that wanted me to be able to officially marry them, per state law.

So yes, I am an ordained minister with a Th.D. that identifies as a modern day deist, that rejects the notion of any divinely inspired holy book (all man made), the supernatural (no devil, demons, or magic), and believes in God solely because of my personal observations of both nature here on earth, and the study of astronomy.

I am an odd ball...

I get it brother. I really do.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I have been asked how or why I went to seminary when I am a deist. When I started, I was a Baptist, which was the religion I grew up in. At seminary, I started asking some serious questions as I learned more about theology. By the time I graduated with a Doctor of Theology (Th.D.), I was a full fledged deist.

I continued at seminary because I wanted to learn as much as I could about theology, world religions, and even ancient languages such as Hebrew and Koine Greek. I also studied Latin because that was the language of the Christian Church for centuries. It helps to understand the source for the KJV on many accounts (the Latin Vulgate).

I became ordained because I have family and friends that wanted me to be able to officially marry them, per state law.

So yes, I am an ordained minister with a Th.D. that identifies as a modern day deist, that rejects the notion of any divinely inspired holy book (all man made), the supernatural (no devil, demons, or magic), and believes in God solely because of my personal observations of both nature here on earth, and the study of astronomy.

I am an odd ball...

Makes sense to me...and I suspect that a goodly number of seminary grads are not quite as upfront about their questioning and questing and understanding as you are, but still do not come out quite as in-tune with the benefactors/denomination of the seminary they graduate from. Keep on keeping on, man!