2:00 Deists v Theists
The Trinity
The Reformation
3:00 WASP supremacy
4:00 Is Nature's God Spinoza's pantheism?
7:00 God is logic and reason.
9:00 We can infer the existence of a Creator if there was a Creation.
10:00 Scientists do not deny the Creation if the Creation was the Big Bang.
Can we be certain that God does not intervene in human affairs?
It would only be logical to believe that good will be rewarded and evil punished in this life or the next if the Abrahamic God exists.
12:00 Spinoza rejected the Abrahamic God because he did not want to live as a Jew.
The first major statement of Deism in English is Lord Herbert of Cherbury's book De Veritate (1624). Lord Herbert, like his contemporary Descartes, searched for the foundations of knowledge. The first two-thirds of his book De Veritate (On Truth, as It Is Distinguished from Revelation, the Probable, the Possible, and the False) are devoted to an exposition of Herbert's theory of knowledge. Herbert distinguished truths from experience and distinguished reasoning about experience from innate and revealed truths. Innate truths are imprinted on our minds, as evidenced by their universal acceptance. Herbert referred to universally accepted truths as notitiae communes—Common Notions. Herbert believed there were five Common Notions that unify all religious beliefs.
- There is one Supreme God.
- God ought to be worshipped.
- Virtue and piety are the main parts of divine worship.
- We ought to be remorseful for our sins and repent.
- Divine goodness dispenses rewards and punishments, both in this life and after it.
Herbert himself had relatively few followers, and it was not until the 1680s that Herbert found a true successor in Charles Blount (1654 – 1693)
14:00 Theism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theism
16:00 The unnecessary confusion about the terms deist and theist was a way of the early Americans avoiding being called atheist, Muslim or heretical to Christianity.
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