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How to use theist in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word theist? Here are some examples.

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It matters little whether a person is able to list herself as a believer or unbeliever, an atheist or a theist, a being of gnosis or of a-gnosis.
The theist who wants to build a systematic and thorough apologetic finds that he is required to begin absolutely from the beginning.
In particular, it invites the theist to explain how a being that is omniscient, omnibenevolent, and omnipotent can allow evil to exist.
Every theist is essentially a creationist in the generic sense of the term, even if he or she places that creation billions of years in the past.
I am a theist and an evolutionist, to be sure, but the combined term makes no sense to me.
But the practical argument was decisive for him, though he held that it was possible to be morally good without being a theist, despite such a position being rationally unstable.
Hence it follows that every theist and every deist is a creationist except for those who accept that morality is a human phenomenon which is innate to human beings in general, including atheists.
I think that eventually the BSA will drop its theist requirement.
Many a theist would grant that creaturely causes lack necessary efficaciousness on the very grounds that Malebranche had presented, but still argue that this does not mean that they lack causal powers.
Atheists can be as fundamentalist as their theist counterparts.
For the theist, by contrast, there is a ready solution to the problem.
It may perhaps be apt to speak of the faith of for example—a humanist, or even an atheist, using the same general sense of 'faith' as applies to the theist case.
In this sense, every theist and every deist is a creationist.
What the theist argues is that the property of being that than which nothing greater can be thought and the property of existing only in thought are not compossible.
Examples from Classical Literature
The theist realizes, however, that belief is at one pole, reason at the other.
The Atheist is only calling the attention of the theist to the consequences of his own argument.
What the theist does at every step of his reasoning is to read his own feelings and desires into nature.
Marion Berry and was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate to succeed Berry in theist Congressional District.
The theist is, as is often the case, saying one thing and meaning another.
The theist, in short, commences with a wrong conception of causation.
Thus the theist is led to the conclusion that the end justifies the means.
Scruton's argument, I think, will be persuasive only to someone who already is a theist.
Speaking to media persons, Chouhan said he is a theist and believes that God will listen to his prayers.
This saying ought not to scandalize even the most devout theist.
If you are a theist and believe in God, being spiritual can help you rationalise that this was God's will and he knows best.
Mackie, both of whom question the claim that a theist could logically affirm the existence of an all-powerful benevolent deity in the presence of so much evil in the world.
Clearly therefore, in the eyes of a Theist, he lies open to the charge of atheism or antitheism.
It may even be questioned whether he is a Theist, whether he is a deist.
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