Thomas Edison was a Deist. Deist believe that there is a God, but do not believe in events such as miracles.
At various times he described himself as a deist and a Christian.
Pierre Viret referred to a believer as a "Christian."
The word is not "Dies", but it is "Deist". A Deist is one who believe that there is a God. Some of our nation's (i.e. the United States of America's) founding fathers were Deists; some were Christian. A Deist may not subscribe to any particular creed or doctrine but he/she simply believes that there does exist a God.
Thomas Emes has written: 'The atheist turn'd deist and the deist turn'd Christian, or, The reasonableness and union of natural and the true Christian religion' -- subject(s): Christianity, Faith and reason, Knowledge, Theory of (Religion), Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Truth, Truth
A:Sir Isaac Newton was a Deist and therefore not a Christian, although strongly influenced by Christianity.
The Confucian view of God is more on par of that of a Deist, rather than that of a Christian or Muslim. Ancestors are also worshipped.
He didn't Ben Franklin was a Deist.
Thomas Morgan - deist - died in 1743.
Charles Blount - deist - was born in 1654.
Charles Blount - deist - died in 1693.
Neil Armstrong was a deist. That meant that he believed that a single creator God did not exist, but he got his evidence from reason and/or logic.