Comments on: Testing worldviews: pantheism http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/05/19/testing-worldviews-pantheism/ The theology of Reality Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:07:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: yoyo http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/05/19/testing-worldviews-pantheism/comment-page-1/#comment-491 yoyo Mon, 19 May 2008 22:55:38 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=339#comment-491 When I was much younger I used to describe myself as anon-institutional pantheist for census purposes. Now I'm more comfortable with the term atheist However, it's this statement that makes no sense to me. <i>Even if you define GOD in a very general term as say a life force (The Jedi God), the religion can not account for anything because the life force GOD has no power to create.</i> Why, logically, does a god have to create? I would have thought that all a god must do to be a god is exist. Anything else is up to the constructions (and motives) we put around our "god view" When I was much younger I used to describe myself as anon-institutional pantheist for census purposes. Now I’m more comfortable with the term atheist However, it’s this statement that makes no sense to me.

Even if you define GOD in a very general term as say a life force (The Jedi God), the religion can not account for anything because the life force GOD has no power to create.

Why, logically, does a god have to create? I would have thought that all a god must do to be a god is exist. Anything else is up to the constructions (and motives) we put around our “god view”

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