... at least you acknowledge His existence. I haven't been able to get even that far.
Or rather, God is not an intelligence. The distinction is significant. God is an abstraction, and a mystery.
You hit upon a key problem that I also noticed. If God is so smart, why can't he design an ark with more than one window? ... and why was He using cubits when standard units are truly so much better? ... and why turn water into wine when He could have turned it into
Viejo de Caldas?
There are just too many unanswered questions.
... there is a spiritual basis to life, that there is spirituality permeating all things
What spirituality is permeating from a bar of Irish Spring?
... and this divine source is not an intelligence. It is just source, a spiritual source sans intelligence.
Maybe you just got some defective ones. Check the warranties.
The simplest definition of Pantheism is that it is the belief that God is not a separate, personal being, but rather that God and the universe are the same. In this view, everything in the natural world is a part of God, and God is present in all things.
Into the Night was just telling me that what you are describing is the correct Christian view. I think we should pull him into this discussion and find out why you are hijacking Christianity and calling it Pantheism.
I have taken this idea and put my own stamp on it,
So, you
are hijacking Christianity and Creationism. Are you going to call it "Permeating Design"?
and for lack of a better term, pantheism is much closer to how I see the world, on a spiritual plane, than anything else. ,
You could just adopt
Into the Night's version of Christianity and get the same results ... and it would be much quicker and easier, and you wouldn't have to make any separate posts to explain yourself.
Always remember, to a pantheist, his 'God' is not a personal God, or a God in any sense of it's traditional and historical definition, mono or poly. It is more of a non falsifiable force that permeates all things, more or less.
So you believe in
The Force. How does your
The Force differ from the Christian God?
My God is not theistic nor deistic,
Yes it is. Your
God of The Force is supernatural which makes it theistic.
it is more on the Einsteinian pantheistic model.
Nope. Einstein used the term "God" euphemistically to refer to "the forces of nature" ... all of which he sought to express scientifically. Your God of the Force is unfalsifiable and cannot have any science modeling it.
It does not intervene or answer prayers,
... as far as you are aware, although it might have answered some of your prayers without you knowing it.
... in my view, true prayer is meditation and meditation is the fastest path to God.
... but untrue prayer still gets the job done, right?
... our natural heritage and all souls, like bubbles in in the ocean, are bubbling upward and will eventually reach the sky, it is inevitable.
What about those of us who have no natural heritage, and who only have unnatural heritage? I don't think we'll ever bubble upward.