To: Jonty30
I think she might be defined as a pagan, because she believed that God permeated Himself in everything, removing the distinction between God and the material world. Isn't that "omnipresence"?
To: Jess Kitting
There is a difference. God can be beside your hammer and your neighbour’s hammer, but He’s not inside the hammers. Omnipresence means being everywhere, but it does not mean being inside everything.
Paganism removes the distinction between God and the material world by moving God inside the material world. It’s a form of singularity.
9 posted on
07/16/2023 5:08:39 PM PDT by
Jonty30
(If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
To: Jess Kitting
God doesn’t require a vessel in order to be everywhere. I almost bought into that mindset in my youth, but it’s not Scripturally based nor is it necessary.
14 posted on
07/16/2023 5:28:28 PM PDT by
skr
(Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
To: Jess Kitting
Exactly. It’s the extreme opposite of pagan — it’s monism, either pantheistic or panentheistic.
25 posted on
07/16/2023 6:06:31 PM PDT by
TBP
(Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
To: Jess Kitting
Jonty30:
I think she might be defined as a pagan, because she believed that God permeated Himself in everything, removing the distinction between God and the material world. Jess Kitting: Isn't that "omnipresence"?
No, that is "Pantheistic," not Christian in any way at all.
The Triune God, with the manifestation of Jesus as God Incarnate, with the material world, the cosmos, a dimension created by the Preexisting Godhead and always separated from Him, is the prime feature of Judeo+Christ(ian) distinctives.
77 posted on
07/16/2023 10:42:10 PM PDT by
imardmd1
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