Panentheism God is within us

Panentheism God is within us Author Mark link tells the story of a young girl who was next to a pit with his grandfather. As they penetrate deeper into a bucket of good for a glass of water, the child asked his grandfather, in which God dwelt. In answer to his question, his grandfather had its maximum and held her so you can see well. He said in water and tell him what he saw and told him that they could see the reflection in water. His grandfather said that was where God resided in her.What a beautiful image of God, with a small child who is not God? T is, somewhere in the clouds, beyond us and impersonal our reach. Indeed, God is with us, around us, in us, a part of us. I wish someone had this kind of image of God, with me as a child, and he told me that my reflection in a picture and was a house of God. " I have heard very little of God as an all-embracing spirit, a part of everything. Instead, I was taught about a supeatural? God exists? , The separate and apart from me and only if it is right and good, that the grandfather was enough.What teaching her niece was in it? s simplest form? Panentheism? a term from Karl Kraus CF 150 years over the concept of God in everything and everything is in God. " For me, panentheism as the thought of God as a sea, and everything in the creation of a fish. We all swim in the sea of God, and the salt water of the sea is in our bodies as our bodies floating in the sea of God.It is important to distinguish between panentheism and the concept of pantheism. The two are very different, and it is the middle syllable? It? the first, which is the fundamental difference. Pantheism is the belief that God is everything and everything is God Pantheism says that God and the forces of matter and the universe are equal, and that God and the sum of the universe and same.Alteatively, panentheism does not mean that God and the world are identical, but that God and creation are closely linked - now with another. Panentheism claims that God is not? Ta supeatural beings, separated from the preparation. Indeed, God is a spirit that is all around us and in us (which varies in an important way from the traditional belief in? Teismo Supeatural, "The point of view of God as completely removed from the preparation). The concept of panentheism is not a kind of heresy, which is outside the Christian tradition. In fact it has a foundation in the history of the Church and of Scripture itself. For example, you can have what Paul is trying to express when he spoke of God in which we live and move and our being (Acts 17:28). And is divided into beautiful Psalm 139, which reads:? Where can I lea from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I were to ascend to heaven, there will be: If my bed in Sheol, behold, there are. If I the wings of the moing, and dwell in the regions of the sea, even there your hand and bring me your right hand holds me. Of course there are countless examples of writing as well as panentheism outside. A clear example is shown in a scene from the film? Patch Adams? which tells the true life story of a doctor, who is also passionate and unconventional in its approach to medicine and nursing patients.While into medical school, patches of friendship and fell in love with another student. As their relationship grew over the years, so has their confidence in him. They finally entrusted patches had been sexually abused as a child. Shared that, as a young girl, she looks out the window at the butterflies in their cocoons and hope they become one, metamorphizing into a new creature to fly away from her pain.Shortly having shared with them their history was assassinated Patch, and the patch was devastated. In his pain he Quit Medical School, and in one scene and stood on a cliff in the beautiful mountains rages at God, what would happen if a leap into the abyss below him.His last words of God? Out there? concluded that, if you're going? God? (thought of as a patch? him?) wouldn? t even care. With this conclusion, he changed his mind about suicide and tued the other side of the cliff, the dismissal of his supeatural theistic conception of God and say in disgust? Forget it! You are not? T worthwhile. He tued his doctor and we sit on a bag near a tree stump farfalla high. When he was at it, the butterfly flew around him and landed on his chest and then on his finger, and he laughed with pure joy, before being flown away.What a powerful representation of the transformation Ein? View of God by a supeatural theistic conception of God, the experience, as you intimate. Patch investigated as if it is from the rock, God? Out there? was not really? t worth it, it was not? t for the value of his faith or belief. But in this moment with the butterfly, has experienced a relationship with the spirit of a living, personal God who was there with him and all along.It increasingly difficult for me to believe and have a relationship with a supeatural theistic, transcendent individually God taught me to recognize when? out there? and separate from me. Instead, the belief that a living, breathing, growing experience faith must reject the idea of God, how? Another being? Who is somehow separate and distinct from me.Thus I exchanged my traditional belief in God? out there? for a relationship with the spirit of God within us and among us and around us, God? in which we live and move and our being. Or in the words of Marcus Borg, not only faith in God, I am looking for relationship with God in which the image I created with love, lives in me and where I live. And this relationship for me is better served by panentheism as part of my spiritual jouey.Susan Ryder is a progressive Christians, and the author of a site of writing (- see more of his work on (