Understanding Deism, Pantheism, & Panendeism

This article is meant to be a quick, at a glance guide to understanding Supernatural Theism, Pantheism, and Deism and how they each define God differently.

In Deism God is transcendent, but God is not present materially. God is completely apart from us and creation itself.

In Pantheism and Pandeism, God is universally manifest in and as everything. In this world view, God is not transcendent because God is the manifestation of all reality. Therefore, in Pantheism, we are Gods.

In Panentheism and Panendeism, God is both transcendent of material reality, and present in it. God is in us and we are in God. This is effectively a kind of "natural theism." In this view, we are all part of God, but we ourselves are not gods.

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