Pantheists believe that there is one absolute, unchanging God that we are a part of. They also believe that we can come to realize that we are God. But if someone came to realize that they were God, how could that be since that would imply God did not know something? God realizing something would mean God has changed - an unchanging God would always know they are God.
How do Pantheists explain this?
2006-09-14 15:00:33 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Gaudiya Vaishnavism, which is the personalist school of thought within Hinduism, most certainly supports your view that God would be less then omniscient if he forgot himself, which is the philosophy of the Shankarites, who are the impersonal school of thought, Shankara is an accepted incarnation of Shiva, who was sent to preach a philosophy that would attract the atheists.
In the personal school of thought, the philosophy is monotheism with applied polytheism, this means there is one Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna, who possesses unlimited potency to expand himself into different spiritual personalities to interact with his devotees.
So we, as individual spirit souls are simultaneously one with the Supreme in quality, we are both Brahman spirit, but at the same time we are separate individuals, qualitatively we are one, quantitatively we are different, God is great and we are very small singular particles.
We as singular individual parts of the Supreme, through misuse of free will can fall down from the spiritual world and dress ourselves, with varying types of material bodies to suit perfectly the separatist mentality that we create for ourselves.
We can become illusioned due to the desire to exist separately from the Supreme, because any relationship, if it has value is based on freewill, we make a conscious choice to either participate in the relationship willingly, or we move on elsewhere, this material world is that "elsewhere".
God however can never be illusioned, rather he provides the energy and capacity for the individual soul to exist in the material realm and forget him forever, should that be the individual desire of the living entity.
Great question, to discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari (sda@backtohome.com)
2006-09-14 16:29:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pantheists believe god is found in nature. Christian scientists believe that material nature does not exist & that god is divine Idea and man his spirtual image, not a material image. The Christian Science faith is failing right now. It is dying out. I am surprised it lasted this long.
2006-09-14 22:06:52 · answer #2 · answered by Bronweyn 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you have the wrong impression of what they (Hindus, anyway, I don't know much about the others) understand the nature of God to be.
Christians (and Jews and Muslims...) are raised to think of God as a sort of father figure, like a divine Santa Claus. I'm not trying to equate God with Santa, I promise. But you know what I mean- a benevolent old father who loves his children but punishes them for being bad, blah blah blah....
Hindus, on the other hand see God as more of a collection of souls. My Hindu/Buddhist friend explained it this way: The ultimate goal is to reach enlightenment, at which point your soul will no longer be reincarnated after death but will join with God. Since Hinduism allows for a much broader interpretation of spirituality, I'm sure many others have a different idea as to what/who exactly "God" is.
2006-09-14 22:02:47 · answer #3 · answered by BabyBear 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
From my studies of pantheism, God would know that these people were a part of him but would not reveal it to him. It is similar to Christianity in that God knows already who is saved and who is not, though alot of people probably do not know one way or the other; it is similar to Hinduism in that all is a part of the supreme, unifying force known as the Brahman.
2006-09-14 22:07:19 · answer #4 · answered by Brittany M 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Pantheist God =! Omni God
They aren't Omniscient, they aren't Omnipotent, etc...
2006-09-14 22:05:02 · answer #5 · answered by eigelhorn 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are the Church, We are the Temple, We are the Spirit.
We are the living Water, We will be made (Like) God
2006-09-14 22:05:49 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pantheists don't believe that.
2006-09-14 22:04:59 · answer #7 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not sure, but thats a good question though
2006-09-14 22:03:24 · answer #8 · answered by Brad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't, they just experience it.
2006-09-14 22:03:33 · answer #9 · answered by Clem 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-14 22:04:35 · answer #10 · answered by the holy divine one 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋