Why Deism? From Seventh Day Adventism to Baptist to Deism

 

How I Became a Deist

by Jack Evans

From the age of nine until my rebellious late teens I was raised in the Seventh Day Adventist church where not only was the bible revered as the inerrant word of God. The churche's prophet Ellen G. White and her writings revealed through visions were viewed as inspired, and vital to the understanding of the bible.
 
After nine years I became disillusioned with its legalistic teachings, and inability to live up to God’s demands and those of Ellen G. White and subsequently left the church. After attending Calvary Chapel for a few years I settled in a Baptist Church for another three years.
 
The last year at the Baptist church we were studying Rick Warrens book “The Purpose Driven Life” when I began to ask questions about the God of the bible as ‘revealed’ through Warrens' book. For instance, why does God require us to worship him constantly if he was self sufficient in himself being the perfect God he is? After all an all benevolent being that is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient doesn’t have humanities' psychological baggage.  Why does God get jealous if his people choose not to worship him? Isn’t jealously a sin we are commanded not to partake in? Worse of all, why does God command to kill or himself kill those who he doesn’t like in violation of his own commandment? The pat answers of “God’s ways are not our ways” or you must “have faith” were not enough.
 
I began to read books like the “Age of Reason” by Paine, “The Crucifixion of Truth” by Tony Bushby and “Biblical Inerrancy” by Dennis McKensey and the scales fell from my eyes. The questioning of my faith in organized religion was shook to the core and I suffered severe cognitive dissonance for two years. I finally left the faith and found Deism as being the closest to what I felt was truth.
 
Deism has allowed me to throw off the chains of dogmatism, religious slavery and legalistic bondage to revealed texts and prophets in exchange for the reasoning, thinking and logical skills God gave me. I now see that revealed religion has been and still is the major cause of all of the world's suffering under many an oppressive regime in other countries, and a danger to our First Amendment right to freedom of and from religion in this country.

 






Latest News of Interest to Deists
Was America created to destroy Islam?
John McCain, who says he agrees with the majority of Americans who erroneously believe the US Constitution established the United States as a Christian nation, is endorsed by a powerful Christian preacher who believes America was founded, in part, to destroy Islam!

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Both Democratic candidates promote the nonsense of the Bible!
Hilary Clinton says, "I think the whole Bible is real." So she believes in the talking donkey (Numbers 22:28), that any nation that will not serve Israel should "be utterly wasted" (Isaiah 60:10-12), among many other ridiculous claims! Based on the blank check both Democratic and Republican politicians give to Israel, it appears they're all strong believers in the Hebrew Bible!

Barack Obama gave a speech in which he used the genocidal maniacs, Moses and Joshua, as great examples to be followed! It's pathetic and dangerous when in this nuclear age politicians still cling to the insanity found in the Bible, Torah and Koran! Here are just two examples to demonstrate that Moses and Joshua were murderous butchers. Deuteronomy 2:34 in which Moses brags about killing "men, women and the little ones", and Joshua 6:21 which says the Hebrews "utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword."  How Obama can think this is good is beyond reason!
At least 50 people were blinded due to religious superstition!
50 people who believed there was an image of the fictional virgin Mary on the sun were blinded due to looking directly at the sun while trying to see the image! Our God-given reason is the only thing that will protect us from such ignorance and superstition - if we decide to use it!


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