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. |
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The theist who wants to build a systematic and thorough apologetic finds that he is required to begin absolutely from the beginning. |
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In particular, it invites the theist to explain how a being that is omniscient, omnibenevolent, and omnipotent can allow evil to exist. |
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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. |
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I am a theist and an evolutionist, to be sure, but the combined term makes no sense to me. |
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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. |
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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. |
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I think that eventually the BSA will drop its theist requirement. |
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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. |
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Atheists can be as fundamentalist as their theist counterparts. |
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For the theist, by contrast, there is a ready solution to the problem. |
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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. |
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In this sense, every theist and every deist is a creationist. |
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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. |
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