Religious Glossary - common terms used related to Religion
Pantheism - This is an identification of the universe
with God. With this view there is a blurring of the distinction
between the Creator and the creation as well as an attack
upon the personality and nature of God. Pantheism tends to
equate God with the process of the universe and states that
the universe is God and God is the universe. This is not true
because God is the creator of the universe (Isaiah 44:24)
and therefore separate from it. (carm)
The belief that the universe and god are one and the same:
god has no existence independent of the universe, and therefore
cannot be its creator. There is no divine purpose, and everything
is a component of the greater whole. Pantheism in its pure
form is a philosophical concept, and not a religion. Cosmic
pantheism and Acosmic pantheism describe attributes of a particular
religion. Some religious movements wrongly identify themselves
as pantheistic, misinterpreting pantheism as animism. (reasoned)
The philosophical form of monism that identifies mind and
matter, finite and infinite, as manifestations of One Universal
or Absolute Being, the doctrine which holds that the self-existent
universe, conceived as a whole, is God.
Pantheism (Greek: pan = all and Theos = God) literally means
"God is All" and "All is God". It is the view that everything
is of an all-encompassing immanent God; or that the universe,
or nature, and God are equivalent. More detailed definitions
tend to emphasize the idea that natural law, existence and/or
the universe (the sum total of all that is was and shall be)
is represented or personified in the theological principle
of 'God'. (wikipedia)
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