Pantheism
197Rational and Religious
1 Jul 2024
9:41¶ 32
“His daughter came to him and said, “People don’t understand what in the world you’re saying. The Brahma thing is confusing.” His response was,…”
8:01¶ 28
“Perhaps if Americans had been a little more acquainted with Hinduism and Buddhism in the 1800s – not that they didn’t know them at…”
8:43¶ 29
“Religion is not confined to either, on the one hand, the God of the Jews or Christians, which most people take to be the…”
119When Nature Fails
23 May 2022
23:57¶ 124
“The thing is, materialists and pantheists can both agree on this. For the materialist, the whole universe (nature) is matter – matter in motion…”
24:23¶ 125
“In the 20th century we began to see an awful lot of physicists wending their way toward Hinduism and eastern philosophies of that sort,…”
31:27¶ 141
“In Baalism it is atheistic. There is no Creator God. It is humanistic. Man can boss the gods around. It is magical. Man can…”
67The Metaphysics of Christian Education
11 Apr 2021
1:18¶ 5
“Now, if you’re a materialist, the stuff may be atoms, particles, sub-atomic particles, quarks, or energy particles, if you want to fudge what materialism…”
1:56¶ 6
“It is theoretically possible to hold some kind of merger of the two. New Age mysticism tried this back a little ways. You can…”
12:42¶ 38
“As Christians we know exactly why we do that. We all want to play God. But there’s nothing within those systems – whether it…”
42The Metaphysics of Life
18 Oct 2020
2:05¶ 5
“When the pantheist or Hindu describes his religion, his god, the god there becomes the semi-sentient or non-sentient – I’m not quite sure –…”
4:20¶ 9
“That basic oneness is matter (materialism), spirit (pantheism), or some interesting stab at some kind of monotheism where God creates out of necessity because…”
7:01¶ 15
“The second reason actually is relevant, which is if God is everything then there’s nothing particularly special about connecting with God and, like you…”
15The Babylon Project
12 Apr 2020
13:00¶ 45
“First, he knows he’s not, and all the demons in his army know he’s not, so that would be kind of dumb. But he’s…”
13The Day the World Died
29 Mar 2020
35:03¶ 110
“All of the religions of the ancient world were both pantheistic and polytheistic. God, divine substance, is inherent in all of reality. It’s just…”
35:39¶ 111
“They can look at this and they can name the gods, but yes, at the same time it’s a wholly natural, because wholly supernatural…”
35:56¶ 112
“Once you deny the creator/creation distinction, you don’t get rid of God. You deify everything. At that point you’re left with magic. The macrocosm…”
3Chaos, Order, and Origins
19 Jan 2020
2:17¶ 5
“What does chaos and order have to do with the ancient way of thinking? Pretty much everything. We have pre-existent matter, which may or…”
2:44¶ 6
“In such cases, the changes are illusory. They’re not real. They’re going to collapse back into the final whatever we want to call it.…”
11:15¶ 26
“If you’re a materialist it’s atoms in the void, atoms in motion, or energy particles or whatever you want to call them. If you’re…”
2In The Beginning
12 Jan 2020
23:15¶ 84
“So pantheism. The day that Satan appeared, he said, “First of all, there’s no creator.” Satan’s an atheist. He says, “The universe is the…”
22:53¶ 83
“But notice again, that leaves no creator so where did the world come from? From itself? It’s self-existent, self-defining. It exists without any kind…”
24:17¶ 86
“You have rejected God. You are an atheist. You believe in your own divinity and the divinity of the world around you. You are…”