I prefer it over monotheism. I think everyone who believes God is in everything are pantheist. I think that they understand what Omnipresence really means. There is no separation of their belief in God from anything, unlike monotheist who would rather believe in an outside source.
If you want to classify them into groups, some of them would be:
Pagans
Wiccans
Native Americans
All of whom respect each other as being part of the whole.
2006-10-06 08:55:30
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answered by buttercup 5
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Thoughts about Pantheism?
Patheism agrees with the Bible if understood as the belief that God is in every being, everywhere and that there is nothing that does not contain God.
The Bble says,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing that was made." John 1: 1-3
The term Word was translated from the Greek logos. Logos can mean many things, word is but one of them, and not the best term to comprehend what was meant by logos.
If we believe that what the Bible says in John 1 is true, we also must see that God is in every thing created!
Seen from this perspective, pantheism as God within everything, is not too far from Christianity in this respect. If Christianity projects God into heaven outside of his creation, then Christianity would not teach what is written in John 1:1-3.
Then there is the question if there is one God or if there are many gods. The definition of God as in all his creation and as the Creator of All That Is, logically guides us to conclude that if God cretated it all, then there can be only one God, the Source of all creation.
If we all could see the similarities in religions, see that all may hold a piece of the whole, we would not have religious fights but know that the one God created it all and that we can create peace on earth.
I believe that finally all religions may draw closer together, honoring the one God. Aren't we all God's children, God's creation, including animals, plants, insects and all?
Interesting question.
Cordially, India.Magica
2006-10-13 13:36:57
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answered by india.magica 6
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I am personally a wiccan pantheists. I converted to pantheism because I always felt that there is no god. I added wicca to it because I use my goddess gaia as a symbol for earth. I felt that I needed to pay tribute to something that I can see and touch. That being nature. I feel that nature is a powerful divinity.
2006-10-12 12:37:13
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answered by wannabe a multimediaartist!!!! 2
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If you feel God is a type of cookware, then you are a frying-pantheist.
2006-10-06 15:44:51
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answered by Anonymous
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