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