Can somebody enlighten me as to the major differences between Deism and Pantheism?

Question

Embarassing to admit I don't really know, but asking questions is how you learn, right?

Thanx!

So...if you're a Pantheist, do you think trees, rocks, everything IS God? Because that's what I thought.

And a Deist would still hold that God is above and outside of his/her/its creation?

I think there was a force that began this whole crazy ride we call the universe, but after it set the natural laws it got out of the way and let things happen as they will.

Answer 1

Deism rejects revelation or authority as a source of belief, believing in God purely on rational grounds. The deists of the 17th and 18th century generally viewed God as the original creator of the universe and its laws but rejected the concept of God’s continuing involvement in creation.

Pantheism is the view that everything is God. The Universe (or nature) and God are the same. This Pantheistic God is an abstract 'god' and is not a personal or creative deity of any kind.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The definition comes from a properly huge-unfold atheist, hence i will purely think of it being a not so veiled criticism to pantheism as a "made over" and greater glamourous (or famous) version of atheism. the adaptation between the two, different than for the obtrusive language conflict between pan- and a-, is the commencing component; atheists think of there is not any god in any admire, for this reason no debate on him/her/that's necessary. Even the definition of atheist is amazingly absurd, in case you think of roughly it, for what might take place if all and sundry have been defined by making use of what one isn't or would not have faith in? we would have a-dragonists, a-winnipooists, a-spidermanists, a-pinkelephantists and so on. A pantheist, on the different hand, believes the finished universe is god and god is in each and everything . In doing so, he/she denies the existence of a transcendent deity, that's on the backside of each and every faith from monotheist to pagan, for this reason Dawkins' abnormal simile.

Answer 3

DEISM: personal god; belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation

PANTHEISM: universe, nature is god; the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature

Answer 4

Well they're extremely different..

Deism basically says that science and religion can be compatible with each other.

Pantheism says that "all gods are one god" basically. No separate gods and goddesses, they all are representations of the same force (for lack of a better word)