(March 28, 2014 at 4:23 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Some general objections that come to my mind are the seeming conflicts between it and orthodox Christian beliefs, though I don't know how much your beliefs are in line with the orthodoxy. For example, it is commonly held that, as per the Bible, God is not of this world, he is separate from it and that unatoned for sin cannot be in the presence of God. Yet under panentheism, it seems all these things are necessarily the case. Sin is then very much within God himself.Yes, my beliefs hardly qualify as orthodox. I like to think that my views line up with the essentials of the faith, even with those of GC and Drich. My sympathies lie with Process theology, but I haven’t committed to that line of thinking just yet. I think there is much to be said for a god that creates by kenosis, withdrawing Himself (in some sense) to make room for our independence.
@Rae, the empirical content of my view is based on the fact that we can have empirical content at all. My view is that experience is the source from which people get knowledge by reasoning from it. In contrast to this, your non-dualist believe undermines the very idea of empirical knowledge, since the only true reality is Brahman.
