Pandeist Project dedicated to the study, demonstration, and advancement of PanDeism

[PacificPandeist]

Found this on the web, thought it looked pretty neat.... The Pandeist Project.... which is "dedicated to the study, demonstration, and advancement of Pandeism, a quickly growing spiritual movement among contemporary freethinkers who strive to understand the nature of all things, and who seek higher truth within themselves"....

Surprising as it is, I don't think I had ever heard of it before!!

The page lists the following "Precepts," which are dead on and also pretty neat:

Precepts of the Pandeist Project

1. Belief not only in God, but that creation is the manifestation of God, as realized through personal experience and personal observations in science and nature, rather than based on the faith based "supernatural revelations" of others.

2. Belief that while we can theorize and speculate about God, the nature of God is beyond human understanding, and no man-made theory of God can possibly be adequate, and no religion, including our own, can be considered the "true" religion.

3. Belief that the "Will of God" exists in the laws of nature.

4. Belief that God guides humanity in matters of morality by way of the human conscience.

5. Belief that humans have the capacity for experiencing God, which is defined as "spiritual awareness of our interconnectivity," and that "religious experience" is any experience that defies the "illusion" of individual separation from "all".

6. Belief that mankind's purpose is to live life to the fullest, and to do our best to secure happiness and contentment for "all".
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[Tube Socks Dude]

There is also PanenDeism, which combines ideas of "PanenTheism", "Process Theology" and "Classic Deism".

http://panendeism.org/default.aspx

 

[PacificPandeist]

I've heard of that too (even conversed with its founder), but I prefer the simpler lines of PanDeism -- PanenDeism requires a portion of God to sit beyond the Universe, but without intervening.... I find no use for that portion!!

 

[Ramona]

This looks pretty awesome. Subscribing.

 

[traversinginfinity]

I've heard of that too (even conversed with its founder), but I prefer the simpler lines of PanDeism -- PanenDeism requires a portion of God to sit beyond the Universe, but without intervening.... I find no use for that portion!!

Just because you personally find no use for that portion, doesn't mean that it's useless or doesn't exist.

Depending on how you define "universe", I believe that a portion of God may exist beyond the the universe. I believe this is especially true if your definition of "universe" is limited only to the physical universe.

 

[PacificPandeist]

Just because you personally find no use for that portion, doesn't mean that it's useless or doesn't exist.

Depending on how you define "universe", I believe that a portion of God may exist beyond the the universe. I believe this is especially true if your definition of "universe" is limited only to the physical universe.

So this is just definitional? If I define the Universe to include the spiritual as well as the physical, I convert it from Panendeistic to Pandeistic?

 

[Tube Socks Dude]

There is also PanenDeism, which combines ideas of "PanenTheism", "Process Theology" and "Classic Deism".

I've heard of that too (even conversed with its founder), but I prefer the simpler lines of PanDeism -- PanenDeism requires a portion of God to sit beyond the Universe, but without intervening.... I find no use for that portion!!

Two years and four months after suggesting PanenDeism in the above post, I too have come to the conclusion that there is no requirement for a portion of God to sit beyond the universe.

You have the PanDeism channel on YouTube, right?