Mind and Consciousness (Religion)

by David Turell , Friday, May 04, 2012, 01:56 (4585 days ago) @ xeno6696

MATT: If God is part of the universe, then God IS the universe. If God is separate from the universe, then God is not part of the universe. These are the only two possible distinctions.
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> It all comes back to the discussion of existence/nonexistence. The short of it is, something either exists or it doesn't. If it does, it's part of God, end of story. That makes it conform to a pantheistic view. Panentheism attempts to separate something from God... in David's case the universe. My exposure to eastern thought leads me inexorably to the conclusion that there is no way, if a God exists, that it would be possible logically or otherwise to declare a separation. -I am a panentheist in the Peacocke sense"-"Peacocke identifies his understanding of God's relation to the world as panentheism because of its rejection of dualism and external interactions by God in favor of God always working from inside the universe. At the same time, God transcends the universe because God is infinitely more than the universe. This panentheistic model combines a stronger emphasis upon God's immanence with God's ultimate transcendence over the universe by using a model of personal agency (Peacocke 2004)-http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panentheism/-Matt: Please read and learn. thank you dhw.