It is hard for me to understand how some people believe that God just created the world, created each of us born into the world and then He stands back. If He is our Father-why would He do that? What parent just creates their child and then after they are born says, "ok your own your own."?
Jesus taught us to call God Father because of the love relationship that exists and that God longs to have with us all. We can't earn this by being a good person. Just like (well for most of us) we can't earn our parents love by being a good child...they just love us regardless. It is the same way-but even moreso with God.
Deism is a religious and philosophical belief that a supreme being created the universe, and that this can be determined using reason and observation of the natural world alone, with the need for either faith or organized religion. Many Deists rejec the notion that God intervenes in human affairs, through miracles and revelations.
Obviously, these views contrast our Christian faith and everything that Scripture reveals when we read it.
I wonder how many Deists have ever opened a Bible and prayed as they read it asking the Holy Spirit to reveal God's truths to them. Hmmm....
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