Theism is the belief that a supernatural Deity created the universe, the earth and life as we know it, and the same IS knowable intruding into the affairs of mankind. Deism believes the same EXCEPT the Deity is unknowable and DOES NOT intrude into the affairs of mankind.
this is a mess, theism is just the belief in gods, deism is the belief in gods who interact with man, theism has nothing to do with what gods do or don't do, deism is more of a philosophy about theism.
both words mean god
Atheism denies the existence of any Deity and the supernatural.
sort of, atheists can be eather strong or weak, namely active disbelief, or nonbelief in gods
ALL atheists accept and rabidly defend the Theory of Evolution, and most evolutionists, according to all polls are Theistic Evolutionists or Christians
thats not true, i know an athiest who rejects evolution too, and their are atheists who don't defend it, because they don't understand it
How could Christians, that is, persons who believe a resurrection miracle occurred accept the ORIGINS theory that all atheists accept?
like i've been saying YEC's are brainwashing people into thinking that inorder to be a christian you have to believe in genesis, which is complete nonsense, where in the bible does it say you have to believe in genesis, ray? or that not believing it denies the resurrection
If a resurrection miracle occurred then logically so did special creation miracles. But the fact of the matter remains: TEists and Atheists agree on ORIGINS that a supernatural deity is not responsible for the appearance of design seen in reality.
the two things do not logically follow, theres nothing that shows this is the way it works.
thats bS ray, TEists and athiests don't accept the genesis account as the true way it happened, that is the only thing, you are conflating the fact that they don't agree in how it happened, with the claim that god has nothing to do with it.
God could have made the world a different way than genesis said he did , so your argument fails
Logically, when Christians and Atheists agree on ORIGINS one group is not genuinely as such since Christians and Atheists are mortal worldview enemies.
see there you go again, you are equivlating christian with creationist, so no it isn't logical its not remotely logical since you are trying to change what christians have to believe in order to be a christian, the bible and christians before never said that you need to believe in genesis to be christian. in fact more church fathers would be shocked by literalism
We need only to explain why TEists THINK they are Christians when their views and positions say they are not.
bullshit, they believe in christ as the son of god and through him salvation from sin, origins has nothing to do with being a christian, unless you have some magic bible that has a new extra part that says "you must be a creationist to be a christian!" then no you are wrong
How is a claim of Christianity substantiated and verified?
by asking them if they believe in jesus as the son of god and part of the trinity and have repented sin and have been saved?
I contend that TEists are not real Christians based on the fact that when Christians and Atheists agree on origins then one party must be deceived.
which is the most irrelevent argument i've read in a while, who cares about origins? what does it have to do with belief in christ?
you are just arguing that because they don't believe in your nonsense they arn't christians in your eyes, but origins have zip to do with salvation or living a christ-like life