[Soliton]

Isn’t Deism a heresy in all Christian denominations? Don’t you have to accept Christ as lord and savior?

[Publius6961]

Isn’t Deism a heresy in all Christian denominations? Don’t you have to accept Christ as lord and savior?

Well, I could answer that, but as a Catholic and as a Christian, I would get sucked into a twilight zone that I would rather avoid.

Full of delusional absolutists.

[SeekAndFind]

Isn’t Deism a heresy in all Christian denominations? Don’t you have to accept Christ as lord and savior?

Yes, Deism is NOT Christianity in all orthodox Christian denominations (Roman Catholicism included). Hence Biola does not consider Antony Flew a Christian. However, being a Theist is a good first step towards being a Christian, especially when you have been the world's foremost apologist for atheism most of your life.

Hence, Biola, being an institution of higher learning, gives Flew a forum to explain how he changed his mind.

[maryz]

Isn’t Deism a heresy in all Christian denominations?

Strictly speaking, heresy is the denial of one or more tenets of a faith one professes to accept; thus, Christians who disagree on major issues hurl charges of heresy in both (or many or all) directions. But Deists don't claim to be Christian, so they can't be Christian heretics.

Belloc (and Chesterton following him, I think) did call Islam "merely the greatest of the Christian heresies" but that's sort of loose usage: I guess historically there's some evidence that Mohammed got the basics of Islam from renegade Christians, but he himself -- and still less his followers -- never professed Christianity.