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One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.
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an adherent of a system of belief centring on God as Creat­or of an ordered universe, a rational Supreme Being to be apprehended by reason. The deists stood for natural as opposed to revealed religion.
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level: Comprehensive (3) [ order by level] Somebody who believes that God created the universe and its laws but then refrained from any further direct intervention in his creation.
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order by term] level: Comprehensive (3) Somebody who believes that God created the universe and its laws but then refrained from any further direct intervention in his creation.
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a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it
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a person who believes that a god exists, the creator of all things, but that he does not take an active role in the world, and is generally and for the most part unknowable
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a person who believes that God designed and created the world and governs it through natural laws that are inherent in everything
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One who subscribes to or professes the belief in the existence of a personal God, based solely on the testimony of reason and rejecting any supernatural revelation; also believing that God created the world and set it into motion, subject to natural laws, but takes no interest in it
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one who believes that a god created the world but does not interact with it
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Someone who believes in the existence of a divine being, but a distant one, a deity who maintains no personal interaction with the creatures he caused to come into existence.
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