Re: All living Christianity is pantheistic

"Rasputin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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>This is what most Christians believe today, that creation is imperfect or in
>bondage, and has been separated from God. This does not sound like
>Pantheism.
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I am aware of that view. However Paul himself also wrote:

Acts 17:28
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of
your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

This is either a pantheist or panentheist concept of God.

>Sticking with Paul's theology, he called his ministry the "ministry of
>reconciliation". God, reconciling "the world" to him through Christ. After
>Christ returns and puts all enemies under his feet, Paul writes:
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>"When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who
>put everything under him, so that God may be all in all."
>
>All in all, that sounds more like Pantheism to me. So I suppose you could
>say that Pantheism is the ideal of Christianity.
>
The above theology is that mankind must wait for Christ to return.

But let us remember that Paul was a human being. He may not have been
correct about this need to wait.

My feeling is that "reconciliation with God"  is more to do with how
we feel about God than vice versa.

That is to say, if we feel reconciled, then we are reconciled.

I personally regard God as:

1) The Totaltity of Being, and,
2) Love, since The Totality of Being supports all existence

1) is a pantheist view and 2) could be considered, I think, to be a
liberal Christian view.


Best wishes,
Peter