(April 6, 2015 at 9:59 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote:(April 6, 2015 at 9:35 pm)Mezmo! Wrote: Not quite. You're thinking of pantheism. Panentheism means that everything comes out of God.
Don't make me consult wikipedia!
Quote:Panentheism (meaning "all-in-God", from the Ancient Greek πᾶν pân ("all"), ἐν en ("in") and Θεός Theós ("God")) is a belief system which posits that the divine – whether as a single God, number of gods, or other form of "cosmic animating force" – interpenetrates every part of the universe and extends, timelessly (and, presumably, spacelessly) beyond it. Unlike pantheism, which holds that the divine and the universe are identical, panentheism maintains a distinction between the divine and non-divine and the significance of bothhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism
So the octopus interpenetrates all us sock puppets with its tentacles and extends timelessly beyond.
The animating principle, to which the Wiki refers, does not necessarily mean control. Think of Divine Emanation like the sun. It provides the warmth and light to all of Earth’s life, but it doesn’t control or direct the lives of the various creatures.