What is the name of this heresy: the belief that all gods are actually the one God? I thought that it was called "pantheism", but I'm not sure. What is the correct term?
P.S.- It's not "paganism", "polytheism", or "pantheism"... it's a different word. Do you know?
2007-07-23 13:05:34 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Note- For anyone intersted in why I used the word "heresy", Christianity, specifically the Catholic Church, defines this specific belief that all gods are one in the same as an actual heresy. I believe it is a canon law term.
2007-07-23 13:29:33 · update #1
Isn't that where you spend all day staring out the window because you're hungry and you can't imagine how can the universe in it's infinite splendor can be grasped by your finite mind. . . OOOOH a tin Can! Hromphs!
2007-07-23 13:10:15 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Zoidberg 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I'm not exactly sure, either. Animism may be the word you're looking for, only the belief is that god is in everything; water, trees, sky, etc. The main focus of their worship is the spirit or god of a particular object.
2007-07-23 20:32:26 · answer #2 · answered by The Alien 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You were right, it's pantheism. Pantheism isn't an heresy, it's a kind of ancient religion. Jews to reach the monotheism passed from politheism to pantheism and finally, from pantheism to monotheism.
2007-07-23 20:11:22 · answer #3 · answered by the_verduz 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When it is found in Christianity it is called "modalism".
In Christianity, Sabellianism (also known as modalism, modalistic monarchianism, or modal monarchism) is the nontrinitarian belief that the Heavenly Father, Resurrected Son and Holy Spirit are different modes or aspects of one God (for us only), rather than three distinct persons (in Himself). God was said to have three "faces" or "masks" (Grk. prosopa).
Pantheism believes that God is everything not that all gods are the one God.
2007-07-23 20:11:45 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Henotheism
2007-07-23 20:10:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's called, 'pan-Deism' but the Church would be the place to check. They have names for every heresy and sin you can imagine (and some you wouldn't).
2007-07-23 20:16:04 · answer #6 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought Science was the only heresy. I forgot that you quarrel among yourselves too. That's funny.
2007-07-23 20:10:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Trinity
2007-07-23 20:08:40 · answer #8 · answered by SisterCF 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Pantheism is that God is all reality and maybe beyond that too
Panentheism is that God contains all reality but transcends it and is infinitely far greater
Monism is that the really real is all one
2007-07-23 20:12:25 · answer #9 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's called Hinduism.
2007-07-23 20:08:37 · answer #10 · answered by Asphycsia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋