Theist

Word THEIST
Character 6
Hyphenation the ist
Pronunciations /ˈθiːɪst/

Definitions and meanings of "Theist"

What do we mean by theist?

One who believes in the existence of a god or gods.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Theist

The word "theist" in example sentences

I used to be an atheist but then I realized that "a-theist" is still god centered. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And as I pointed out, your position effectively drains the terms "theistic evolutionist" and "creationist" of all meaning, such that every theist is both a "theistic evolutionist" and a "creationist" at the same time. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Shouldn't He be just part of life and aligned with good whether someone identifies as theist or not? ❋ Unknown (2009)

To be fair, I think the theist is confident, tolerant, sympathetic if and only if: he’s raped an altar boy, tortured to death a heretic, successfully waged war on an infidel nation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anyway, that would be a problem for the atheist’s position in this case, since the theist is happy to stop at a single (or finite-numbered, just as good) universe, since the next step is God. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To summarize a long and heated debate, he sees himself as a "theist" -- a non-atheist -- but this doesn't translate as belief in God in the conventional sense. ❋ Wendi L. Adamek (2011)

Clearly an atheist calling a theist stupid would be rather... stupid in itself wouldn't it? ❋ Steve Caldwell (2008)

The theist is a man firmly persuaded of the existence of a ❋ Unknown (2007)

Weak, or negative, atheism is either the absence of the belief that gods exist (in which case anyone who is not a theist is a weak atheist), or of both the belief that gods exist and the belief that they do not exist (in which case anyone who is neither a theist nor a strong atheist is a weak atheist). ❋ Unknown (2007)

An observer unaware of this history might expect that anyone who believes in a God who cares about human beings that is, a theist would be someone who believes in Intelligent Design. ❋ Francis S. Collins (2006)

To Norm, a theist is a theist is a theist is a theist, and all theists are the enemy. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Moreover whether a man deserves to be called a theist depends on the definition of the term: which is much too large a subject for a note. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The theist is the last person standing because everyone else smarter than him has walked away from his annoying insipidity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although Plato cannot be described as a theist, he influenced the Greek neo-Platonism from the second and third centuries B.C., which did have a major influence on early Christian teachings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although Plato cannot be described as a theist, neo-Platonism from the second and third centuries B.C. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although Plato cannot be described as a theist, neo-Platonism from the second and third centuries B.C. was a major influence on early Christian teachings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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