“This one god could be of the deistic or pantheistic sort. Deism might be superior in explaining why God has seemingly left us to our own devices and pantheism could be the more logical option as it fits well with the ontological argument's 'maximally-great entity' and doesn't rely on unproven concepts about 'nothing' (as in 'creation out of nothing'). A mixture of the two, pandeism, could be the most likely God-concept of all.”
― There Was No Jesus, There Is No God
― There Was No Jesus, There Is No God
“God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love
“Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.”
― Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism
― Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism
“God did not create the world, He became the world. God became the world to realize himself, in material form, to realize an eternal and infinite aim. It is for the purpose of realizing His eternal and infinite aim that He became the world. Now notice this. God had to conceive the one primordial idea to become the world. Thus the idea preceded the world. This is supposed to be the relation between cause and effect. The cause is assumed to be prior to and independent of the the effect; while the effect is assumed to be posterior to and dependent upon the cause.”
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