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Old 06-25-2008, 10:26 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Smile Theistic Pantheism vs New Age Pantheism (Atheism)

[quote=Nick Treklis]
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Going by my definition of God, the only thing that deserves that title would be The Totality of all there is. For me God is synonymous with Nature, the Universe, the Infinite, Ultimate Reality, and as I've already mentioned, the Totality.
This sounds indistinguishable from the pantheistic philosophy, that 'All is God'. However, you are using the term 'God' as a synonym for nature. This is the revisionist interpretation that atheists have ascribed to justify their 'pantheistic' philosophy. In classical pantheism, God is seen as a divine sentient-entity, that encompasses all existence, potential, energy, matter, space, time, laws and constants, as this was the creation of his/her powers. This view is consistent with Baruch Spinoza's philosophy, yet people such as Richard Dawkins consider this 'sexed up atheism' when the term God isn't twisted as a descriptive metaphor. I think this quote sums it up nicely, "Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded". Shipley.


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So going by my definition, yes God is omnipotent, but anything that can be distinguished from another thing is not omnipotent and doesn't deserve the title of God, e.g. the christian (pagan) "god".
The Christian God is actually based on the Hebrew God (YHWH) who is one and this view is also accepted by the Moslems, Bahai's and Deists. However, the Catholic Church decreed the concept of the Trinity; God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit. Not all Christians accept the Trinity which is an explicity pagan concept. The Unitarians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Universalists, Latter Day Saints, Arians and the Gnostics accepted the belief that Jesus was not God.

John 17:1-3 Jesus prays to God.
John 4:22 Jesus worships God.
Hebrews 5:7 Jesus has reverent submission, fear, of God.
Acts 3:13 Jesus is a servant of God.
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