(July 5, 2015 at 8:20 pm)Metis Wrote:(July 5, 2015 at 8:07 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Pops described a deist view, not a pantheist view.
But you knew that.
A deist God has no interest in his creation, it moved on. There is a foricible seperation between man and god in Pops view. Not only that but with his talk of energy he clearly sees God as being the ground of all being.
It seems you didn't know that, as Pops' latest post proves.
It appears you may be right. I keyed on this:
"I believe there is one God who created everything, or at least got the ball rolling."
That reminded me of this definition:
Deism. Deism is actually a form of monotheism, but distinct in character and development. In addition to adopting general monotheism, deists also accept the specific ideas that the single existing god is personal in nature and transcendent from the created universe. However, they reject the idea that this this god is immanent, which is to say presently active in the created universe.
The term pantheism is built upon the Greek roots pan, which means all, and theos, which means god; thus, pantheism is either the belief that the universe is God and worthy of worship, or that God is the sum total of all there is and that the combined substances, forces, and natural laws which we see around us are but manifestations of God.