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Which one describes you the best way?
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masonlandry
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Pantheist is probably the closest but polytheist or monotheist would maybe also work. The problem is I'm not all that sure what I think god is, or even if there is anything I would consider a god. I have a difficult time fitting into any of these categories because it all is highly dependent on what you mean by god. I take issue with some of the connotations of pantheism, because I don't believe the universe being God and the universe just being what it is makes all that much difference, yet at the same time, there are elements to the way I see existence as a whole that makes it more than just a material universe full of stuff.
I'm content to call multiple aspects that I consider to be forces that make up "god" just multiple parts of one god. But I could also see reason in calling different forces different gods. It's really the same problem as of whether the Trinity is one god or three gods. It just depends on how you look at it. I'm still in the process of looking.
I'm content to call multiple aspects that I consider to be forces that make up "god" just multiple parts of one god. But I could also see reason in calling different forces different gods. It's really the same problem as of whether the Trinity is one god or three gods. It just depends on how you look at it. I'm still in the process of looking.
BenFranklinFan
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
Strict Monotheist (Unitarian)
All of these, plus monism and henotheism. None of these are mutually exclusive in Hinduism. They all exist at the same time.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
Very confusing! No?
Very confusing! No?
It could be. But, there's a hierarchy from my pov...
- Monism - there is really only one thing, Brahman, from which everything else emerges.
- Pantheism - Bhagavad Gita 10.20-40.
- Panentheism - Bhagavad Gita 10.41-42.
- Polytheism - God takes many forms; jāki rahi bhāvanā jaisi prabhu mūrat dekhi tin taisi
- Henotheism - one's ishta-devata, plus worship and reverence to other deities. oṁ sarvebhyo devebhyo namaḥ.
And yes, I think too much.
I'm definitely a non-dualistic-dualistic-non-dualistic panentheist.
Dualism is only a relative experience (Maya) during the time that we have a body and separate soul.
So God is absolutely One but at the same time present in everything in a relative (projected) form.
Dualism is only a relative experience (Maya) during the time that we have a body and separate soul.
So God is absolutely One but at the same time present in everything in a relative (projected) form.
The terms you mention have multiple meanings. Here is my use of them based on my views (I am all 4; a deist-monotheist-agnostic-panentheist)...
- Deist -- I reject (for myself) revealed religions and revealed spiritual paths. I reject revealed truth claims from these.
- Monotheist -- I believe in one God, the creator of everything good and beautiful, a personal God with whom I have a moment by moment personal relationship.
- Agnostic -- I don't believe we can know anything about the structure and functioning of the spiritual realm.
- Panentheist -- I believe God indwells and inhabits everything that exists, material and spiritual.
I suppose I would be best described at a pantheist.
