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God
exists and created the universe to exist according to
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natural laws.
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God
does not intervene within the created world.
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Biblical
accounts of prophesies and miracles are not to
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be believed:
there is no such thing as Special
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Revelation.
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God
wants his creatures to lead morally upright lives.
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Jesus
was a righteous moral teacher who was later
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divinized by his
followers.
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There
is an afterlife in which God will reward moral
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behavior and
punish immoral behavior.
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The
Bible preserves some useful moral teachings, once
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purged of its
mythological and superstitious elements.
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