From: "Phil Walden" <phil-AT-pwalden.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: BHA: theism no, deism (?)
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:01:06 +0100


Hi all,

Apologies - that should have been [against the notion that] *everything we
think we know is THEISTICALLY corrigible and changeable*.  Theistically, not
deistically.  What I understand by deism is that it is possible that God
resides within human beings, even though we haven't established that by
reason and argument.  So on my view there is no transcendental God.  As I
see it, deism is compatible with free will, theism is not.  This is not
identical to a Sartrean position, for he did not hold Dietzgen's view that
ideas are a form of matter.  So I guess I am saying that if there is/are
God(s) it/they is/are material.

Phil




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