What's the difference between deist and monotheist?

Deist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During subsequent open prostatectomy, a condition analogous to dilation with the Deisting dilator was seen.
  • (2) Whether or not it would exercise that capacity was another issue, and in Empire (2003) he worried that "in the absence of formal empire it must be open to question how far the dissemination of western 'civilisation' - meaning the Protestant-Deist-Catholic-Jewish mix that emanates from modern America - can safely be entrusted to Messrs Disney and McDonald".
  • (3) We conclude that the indications and results obtained with the balloon dilator are similar to those with the Deisting dilator.

Monotheist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who believes that there is but one God.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once you accept this, it is quite easy for Hume to show why nothing in what we observe of the world justifies us reaching the conclusion that it was designed by anything like the God of the monotheist religions.
  • (2) Once any monotheistic religion is starting, feminism is finished.
  • (3) Yet the conversation Abdul was having with a Ted Cruz supporter named John about the parallels between the monotheistic religions was not what Trump rallies are typically about.
  • (4) Later this month, the president will visit the homes of the world’s three biggest monotheistic religions – Saudi Arabia, Israel and Rome – on a tour billed as a new beginning in the struggle against extremism, before attending a Nato session in Brussels and a G7 summit in Sicily.
  • (5) We Christians, together with the other monotheistic religions, believe that the universe is the fruit of a loving decision by the Creator, who permits man respectfully to use creation for the good of his fellow men and for the glory of the Creator; he is not authorized to abuse it, much less to destroy it,” he said.
  • (6) It was necessary to prepare a sound programme in which the muhajireen might take refuge as their jihad is the result of the glory to Islam and the monotheists.
  • (7) They are not Christians, they are Yazidis, an ethnically Kurdish people who follow a monotheistic religion all its own.
  • (8) There could be no bigger deal than to somehow bring together the world’s three great monotheistic religions – and, while he is in the region, slicing through the knots of the 70 years of Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the same time, which he said on Wednesday “ may be not as difficult as people have thought over the years ”.
  • (9) And the story of Moses has a strange echo in the life of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, the first monotheist known to history.

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