Hi Ben,Ben wrote:I think that one of the issues here seem to be arising from not agreeing on what constitutes theism.
I am going to take the specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe, as an important qualification in the definition. And if I were to use the above definition then I would conclude that while gods exist within the Buddhist cosmology, it is essentially an atheistic doctrine because of the rejection of a creator who intervenes in the universe.Oxford English Dictionary wrote:Theism: belief in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe
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Ben
Yet the definition includes "belief in the existence of a god or gods" which is the aspect I stated was being used here. not the narrow but the wide definition.