IsmailaGodHasHeard
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I did when I was a panentheist. I was wondering if you guys do too.
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I did when I was a panentheist. I was wondering if you guys do too.
I can't speak for all panentheists and I try to avoid god-descriptions in my own belief system, although I do dabble on occasion as a mental exercise, but consider our findings through science. The vast majority of the universe is composed of particles, dark matter, dark energy, and other stuff that we simply cannot normally observe. If we take what we can directly observe and mistake it for all reality then we are accepting an illusion of it. Even after we accept that reality is much more intricate and convoluted than we would like to think, we still experience the illusion created by our limited perceptions so no, the universe is not an illusion, but yes, our perceptions create an illusion of it.
So it depends on the person?
Of course.
So was I a bad panentheist to believe that Creation is an illusion?
If I had to hazard a guess, I would say that all freethinking theologians not constrained by dogma would not condemn another freethinking theologian just because their theology differed slightly. How could you be "bad" because of it?
Neat. I'm not a panentheist, but I agree with the general sentiment: The universe is real, but our perception of it is likely to be faulty, skewed, and-- most obviously-- incomplete. And by necessity, we interact through our perspective, and not with things as they might actually be.