[joesnuffy]

Flew said he's best labeled a deist like Thomas Jefferson, whose God was not actively involved in people's lives.

"I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins," he said. "It could be a person in the sense of a being that has intelligence and a purpose, I suppose."

Yes if you take Jefferson out of context rather than look at his Christian life practice he may at time 'appear' to be just another deist....

When he says that The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus Christ are 'depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots...cosmic Saddam Husseins?

By who?....those who promote Christianity and Islam?....He sounds like just another atheist relativist...making moral equivalence statements between Islam and Christianity..surprised he did not take on Judaism while he was at it....must have chickened out on that course...

His new opinion as a deist is nearly as worthless and misleading as his opinion as an atheist

He appears to be anything but some poor devil struggling with finding God

But his conversion and salvation are up to Jesus and the Holy Spirit...if God wills him to be saved he will be....he ain't dead yet so who knows...perhaps by the grace of God he will...(be saved that is).

But when he preaches error or mistakes facts in order to bolster his own opinions.. he needs (as we all do) to be challenged

imo

[PigRigger]

I believe the God of the Christian faith is a loving God who wishes for all his children to be part of his Kingdom.

I for one don't have the wisdom to understand how God will judge those who don't accept Christ as there justification for forgiveness. A loving God will give the sinner every chance to repent and be forgiven; whether that must occur before our death is not clear to me. God may very well give you up until the moment of judgment to ask for forgiveness and embrace Christ's Salvation. I just don't know.

My guess is that when we come to be with God, we may very well surprised by who see. Every sin is forgivable in God's eyes; that is the gift we receive through Christ.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"Flew said he's best labeled a deist...whose God was not actively involved in people's lives."

At 81 he has relatively few Flew years left before he discovers the truth about the God he apparently wishes not to know. Flew apparently is still choosing not to choose life.