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All Is God
Pantheism says, “all is God,” the sum total of everything that exists—trees, animals,
grass, rocks, dirt. All is God. He has no existence apart from what is. Pantheism does
away with a personal God.
The pantheist rejects all the supernatural. The soul is merely part of the substance
making up all things. Man has no real distinctiveness as an individual, merely a part of
God as a drop of water is part of the ocean.
Hinduism may be the best known form of pantheism. Brahma, the supreme, sole God,
has become so abstract that worship is mainly through other gods as forms of his
manifestation.
Pantheism makes little distinction between good and evil. With no personal God there
are no moral obligations, no absolute right and wrong. Each person is free to do as they
please, to live as they want. Postmodernism embraced that.
Pantheism declares that God is coexistent with nature. If so, He cannot be its cause. But,
God, by His very nature, existed prior to the beginning of the universe—its cause
(Genesis 1:1; Revelation 4:11). God wins.
God is in all things, but all things are not God. God is in each cell of every living thing
and in every molecule of the universe. But, God is a distinct personality, independent
from all things as the creator is separate from the created (Ephesians 4:6).
We are all conscious of being completely distinct from all other individuals, and from all
things in the world around us. We know it. That consciousness voids pantheism.