PearlSeeker
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In Christian theology God is transcendent. God is eternal and unchanging. God and creation is not the same. This is difference but not separation. There is a bond. A bond of love. God is in personal relationship, deeply involved, immanent, present everywhere - outside and within... One but not the same.Brahman is visualized in Hinduism in many ways.
1. As a God separate from his creations (that is monotheism, dvaita, dualism);
2. as different but still the same (qualified sameness, there are a whole lot of views of this kind which you can find here: Vedanta - Wikipedia) and
3. one in which Brahman is not considered a God but the entity which constitutes everything in the universe. Substrate of all things but still not a God.
Strict dualism would be deism or gnosticism.