2007-09-23 13:45:39 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, God is in your desk!, Parrot
2007-09-24 02:05:40 · update #1
Steve,
In the beginning, your image, your word(s) were all that that camera seemed to be. Just thoughts, right? But careful, because without those thoughts, that camera would not be!
Where did the thought end? Where did the camera object begin? What is the defining moment of truth?
In the beginning was the Word? Created in the image?
Healing be unto you and yours and me and mine
In Forgive Affirmed Spirit
~skahhh
2007-09-24 02:16:03 · update #2
It's absolutely pantheistic.
Excellent point!
The monotheists would argue that God is not of this universe, but rather a dimension beyond space-time (heaven or some other realm beyond our 4-dimensions). But in so doing they will never be able to explain how a "God" in that location could manipulate the objects in our universe without himself being part of our universe.
Theologian Paul Tillich brilliantly observed that "God" is "the ground of being". Einstein called this space-time. Without space-time and it's natural laws, we wouldn't exist. The universe IS your creator (which is pantheism).
2007-09-23 13:51:51 · answer #1 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God's omnipresence is a distinctly different concept than pantheism. Patheism is the idea that God is everything, whereas the Bible indicates that God is distinct from nature. God is the creator of the universe, and as such the universe is not God.
As a rough example I could say that I created a surveillance camera, but just because I can see things through the camera doesn't mean the camera is me.
Likewise I can create things in my "image", and yet those things are not me.
And what does being around the things I create have to do with those things being me?
Those are two distinct concepts.
2007-09-23 21:46:10 · answer #2 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two answers that I think go together:
Multiple Gods is POLYtheism, not Pantheism.
Pantheism is not just that God is everywhere, but that everyTHING is part of God. In other words, the Universe is Divine, The "Creation" is God itself. (Mr Potatohead up above had the right answer.)
TRANSCENDENT Monotheism is that God is the Creator of His creation, and more than the Universe.
But "God is everywhere" could mean that God is not only everywhere in the Universe but simultaneously even beyond the Universe as well .
But I think that I think that God is not really anyWHERE in the Universe (because Heaven/The Kingdom of God is the Presence of God and not a place in the Universe), but God IS totally accessible from anywhere in the Universe.
We say to little kids that God is everywhere so they feel safe and loved by Him (and that's true, we are), but we assume that kids can only understand physical presences. After all, even a number, for example 217, is accessible from everywhere in the Universe, but we wouldn't say that it exists at any one specific place, even though it exists. Maybe God's location is like a number only "more so".
2007-09-23 21:08:12 · answer #3 · answered by mongoemperor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you talk about pantheism, you are referring to the idea that everything is god, that when the sum total of everything is put all together, that all adds up to god.
To say that God is omnipresent (God is everywhere), what you're saying is that God transcends space.
Do you see the difference? The first says that god is finite and part of the universe. The second says that God is infinite, created the universe, is apart from the universe, and transcends the universe..
Pantheism says that god IS everything. Omnipresence says that God is EVERY where, or that He manifests His presence everywhere.
I trust that this helps you to understand the difference between the two.
2007-09-23 20:55:15 · answer #4 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the idea is that in pantheistic religions there are multiple Gods inside of things, like Poseidon is in the sea and spirits are in trees and rivers and are part of them, while the monotheistic God of Abraham is completely outside the physical world and sees and can control all of those things ,but is not one with them
2007-09-23 20:59:32 · answer #5 · answered by MrPotatoHead 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God is the One and only True God. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob whose Son is Jesus the Christ my Lord and Savior. Pantheism is many gods and goddesses like in Greek mythology.
2007-09-23 20:58:33 · answer #6 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pantheism refers to the fact that God is not just everywhere, but is also non-anthropomorphic. An ashtray full of cigarette butts is just as holy as a rose. It also does not see God as being exclusively good (or evil) but morally neutral.
2007-09-23 20:51:47 · answer #7 · answered by Belzetot 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is god inside my desk, inside the wood of the desk, inside the atoms of the molecules in my desk? Is god my desk? answer that and know the truth
2007-09-23 20:54:47 · answer #8 · answered by Parrot Bay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the assumption here is that God exsists in his creations, which is incorrect.
He is omnipresent, meaning he exsists everywhere, not in everything.
Only man, which is a spirit that possess a soul, inside body can truly commune with God. the lesser creatures are just window art if you will for man's dominion.
2007-09-23 20:52:54 · answer #9 · answered by Jason W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the fine line is that Christians don't see god in everything. Everywhere but not in everything.
So their god may be in the forest but he's not in the pinecone.
2007-09-23 20:51:28 · answer #10 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋