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16 years ago @ EXPLORING THEOLOGY 1 & 2 - THE IMMANENT AND TRANS... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks for the opportunity to post again, and the quick reply--a first! Today, I googled the category God's immanence and transcendence (since that is what I believe) and you were the first offering that allowed a comment. I have since posted a few others, but on those I added at the end of the first paragraph: (in this respect, as people suffer so too God, as people fight against unnecessary suffering and injustice, so too God).

For those special few who are God-full, so to speak, self-doubt, ego, temptation,--all that keeps one apart from God, ceases to exist. But, on the other side, that option is not available to God; as the blood of humanity spills in vain, the anguished cry's of God call us back to the struggle, back to the call of Jesus--love God with all your heart and do on to others as you would have others do on to you.

16 years ago @ EXPLORING THEOLOGY 1 & 2 - THE IMMANENT AND TRANS... · 1 reply · +1 points

As I understand God, God is both immanent and transcendent. As immanent, God is identical with all freedom and liberation, i.e., the evolution of the universe, life, and civilization. But, pantheism is not implied by this immanence. The boundary that separates God form not-God (as Whitehead suggests) is found in what perpetuates "good-healthy- feelings," i.e., the freedom/liberation that perpetuates "good-healthy-feelings."

God is transcendent because the structure that embeds God's immanence is also the structure that logically affirms (implies) Godhead. This structure, logically speaking, can be described as ~~b (the immanence of God's nothingness), ~bb (life liberated from God's nothingness), and b~b~bb (the physical event of logical implication liberated from the biological existence of God's nothingness). In other words, transcendent God is "implied" from the structure that embeds, separates, and connects everything to everything else via the space of logical implication. I understand God, but living one's life in/through God means "always bringing oneself back to God, back from living outside the boundaries of God--and that is also another definition for struggle!