This is so wonderful.
I hope God is real, because this is so nice.
Transcendent/immanent God
Andrew Cruz
Luis Young
It is wonderful :)
Read some of Genesis. The story of creation is beautiful. Even there one finds prophecies of Christ.
Alexander Cooper
Redpill: open theism
The insistence that God is so detached and outside of time is an extrabiblical impulse stemming from platonism
Hudson Richardson
Redpill: open theism
Wut
Why hasn't anyone spoken of God's immanence by mentioning, oh, I don't know, maybe the incarnation?
Grayson Bell
The way I understand it is you can use words like transcendent and immanent to describe God, but if you carry it too far then you've joined Islam, but if you reject it too much then you've joined Freemasonry.
There's a happy medium to recognizing God's importance and recognizing that He ordained a natural order which, though fallen in man, behaves in a regular fashion, and is overall relatively sane. A fully transcendent God would also be an evil god since it implies that he is the author of evil as well as good.
Jaxon Stewart
youtube.com
Good video on the subject, although several people here have argued to me that panentheism and the essence-energy distinction are heretical so of course this is specifically an Eastern Orthodox perspective (well, the maker of the video is Protestant but his summary of the Orthodox view is correct).
Nathaniel Fisher
Open theists aren't Christians
Liam Williams
Prove it
Hunter Jackson
Still waiting
Henry Davis
Essence-Energy distinctions have nothing to do with pantheism and is precisely what destroys all such notions. And in practice, you'll see that to be the case. You won't find one pantheist Orthodox. Anyone trying to push it so is an outsider. A LARP. The Orthodox church to this day only upholds the God revealed through revelation, not in various expressions in matter or via universal knowledge (sadly you even see this creeping in in old/sacramental churches like the Roman Catholic church, which views the Eucharist literally in the species of bread and wine as Christ himself. They've disembodied Christ from the only form he chose in revelation: the form of a Man. Outside of that, the Eucharist should be a mystery). It's these kind of associations that lead to pantheism or a God in "everything". Nowadays, the post Vatican II church has gone beyond just odd philosophical notions of the Eucharist and fully embraced the notion that all of those pagan religions outside of Christ still hold some "truth". Look at Assisi, where Pope John Paul II is celebrating with Native Americans and Muslims and Hindus alike. Why did they fall this hard? Because they stopped believing in a God of revelation long ago, and this is only it's natural end. It's a generic "god" revealed in all of these mundane expressions, even pagan ones.