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any Thoughts on this?
- Thread starter davidthegreek
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dyanaprajna2011
Dharmapala
Pantheism?
Levite
Higher and Higher
The verse itself is actually rather difficult to render-- the standard translation is highly questionable, being based on the interpretation of the Septuagint and one of the minor Aramaic targumim, since one of the key words (an apparent verb) in the verse is a hapax legomenon. Nonetheless, the basic idea of the standard translation is probably more or less in the right area.
A better rendering might be something along the lines of "I leap up toward the heavens, and there You are; I stretch myself out in the grave, and You are there also."
The idea here, as the master commentator Ibn Ezra points out, is a poetic dualism, paralleling the far heights of the heavens with the low closeness of the earth, indicating by metonymy that there is no place-- the psalmist wishes us to comprehend-- wherein God is not to be found.
A better rendering might be something along the lines of "I leap up toward the heavens, and there You are; I stretch myself out in the grave, and You are there also."
The idea here, as the master commentator Ibn Ezra points out, is a poetic dualism, paralleling the far heights of the heavens with the low closeness of the earth, indicating by metonymy that there is no place-- the psalmist wishes us to comprehend-- wherein God is not to be found.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Could be, or even panentheism
davidthegreek
Active Member
what is the difference between the 2?
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Ahh... I believe pantheism is where the deity actually is everything, panentheism is where the deity resides in everything
[edit] yes it's a little confusing
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Pantheism--God is Nature, all that is composes God
Panentheism--Nature is in God, but God is also outside Nature.
I interpret it as a very holistic view of God, which is weird being paired with the concept of Hell as I rarely see Christianity using a holistic idea of God over the divide, all good not evil deity they tend to believe in. This still does not make sense to me though, as it defeats the whole idea of being with or against God.