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deism
physico-theology
Arianism
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Thomas Morgan was one of the eighteenth-century British deists. He started as an orthodox Christian, but soon steered toward Arianism rejecting along the way the inspired character of the Bible, making it a book filled with fabrications. He rejected the divine status of Christ and the belief that He died to atone for the sins of humanity. In the matter of religion, he relied only on reason accepting natural religion and considering Christianity to be only one version of it. In his rationalism, he constantly referred to the rule of fitness never making it clear what is its meaning and, curiously, he ultimately based the inerrancy of reason on the inspiration the reason obtains directly from God, which altogether invalidates his entire criticism of Christianity. Calling himself a Christian deist, but he only shared with Christianity physico-theology, that is, the proof of God from the design of the world.
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