God according to deism has never wrought a miracle nor made a supernatural revelation to man. Having made his clock, and wound it up, he does not interfere with it, and the longer it can run without the maker's intervention the greater the evidence of wisdom and skill on the part of the maker. ![]() God sustains, according to deism, very much the same relation to the universe that the clock-maker does to his timepiece. The material world is placed under immutable law while man, the rational and moral free agent, is left to do as he wills. What is Diesm?ĭeism teaches that there is a God, and that He created the world, but created things do not need His presence and the exercise of His power in order to continue in existence and fulfill their functions. A common thread of deism is the idea that God set the world in motion and then stepped away to let it run its course. Since there is no official “Deist Handbook” that has been universally agreed upon (although an 18 th century man did write a book entitled The Deist’s Manual), definitions are difficult. Deism is not a universally agreed upon religion, but rather a common set of ideas.
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