God is the Creator of the whole world, God is above the world and does not merge with It. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. It was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In. 1,3.
The teaching of pantheism ( the doctrine of the fusion of God and nature) is alien to Christian teaching. I will quote a fragment from a very good book “Religious and philosophical foundations of history” by the Russian thinker Lev Tikhomirov on this topic:
“But perhaps it is much more important to note the general concept of the world and of God, which is the same for all revelations except the Christian one, and which understands the world as an emanation from the Deity or identifies the world with the Deity. This was the view of the ancient Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Hindus, and they inherited Kabbalah, occultism, and modern theosophy. In revelations of this kind, one can see a fluctuation of thought between two assumptions: did the world with all its objects and beings originate from the divine element, or did there exist alongside the Deity as an organizer, an architect, a matter equal to it, from which the Deity itself was born as a result of some fluctuation of particles? But whether thought proceeds in one direction or another, one thing is clear: for such a worldview there is no need for Divine Revelation, for the idea of pantheism and emanation is purely human. A person cannot imagine anything else when he tries to create a philosophy of being, guided only by what he observes in the surrounding world of physical phenomena. The general idea of all these “revelations”” these philosophies of being – among the Egyptians, Hindus, Kabbalists, etc. – is that”nothing can be created out of nothing.” Yogi Ramacharaka (Jnani Yoga, p.93), who preaches Hinduism to the European public, very characteristically refuses to understand such an incongruity that” nothing “can be made into” something“. For him, this is an axiom, as it was in the ancient world in general. This axiom was proclaimed by Lavoisier in chemistry: “Dans ba nature-rien ne se cree, rien ne se pcroc” (Nothing arises from nothing). And of course, this is the law of matter. There is neither the creation of matter nor its destruction, but only transformation. Therefore, when the mind starts from observing the laws of matter, it can never accept the fact of creation. He knows only the generation of one phenomenon from another. The idea of creation could only come from the Revelation of One Who stands outside the laws of matter, Who Himself created matter, not in the sense that He made it out of nothing, but in the sense that in place of nothing He created something, created some being where there was no being. To this evoked being from non-existence, the Creator gave certain laws that were pleasing to Him, just as He could have created something completely different, with completely different laws. For the human mind, which does not observe such a creation anywhere, but knows only the generation, evolution and transformation of existing things, the idea of creating being in the place of non-being is completely unthinkable, it could not even occur to it, it is, so to speak, absurd, contrary to everything that we know, that we can think.
Therefore, it is clear that all the philosophies of existence that do not imagine the creation of the world out of nothing are not revelations from above. They proceed from such an understanding, which is peculiar to man. No revelation is needed to reason in this way.
We can see revelation only in the extraordinary, unimaginable way in which we and the whole world came to be, as we have learned from the Christian teaching of Moses. This is really something that we ourselves, with our own minds, could not recognize. Only the One Who created the world could tell this extraordinary thing. It is this extraordinary Revelation that proves its divinity. Nevertheless, the philosophies of the understanding of being themselves reveal their complete alienation from anything other than the forces of human reason, and by their very nature show that they are not given by the Revelation of God.
The Christian revelation of Moses communicates something that is truly unassailable by reason. It does not tell us so much about the incomprehensibility of God as the Kabbalah does, but it shows His incomprehensibility by this very act of creating everything out of nothing. The One who created the world out of nothing is, of course, incomprehensible. But this does not contradict human reason, if only reason takes into account the perfectly acceptable circumstance that the laws of our local, physical existence are not the only ones in the world, and that there may be other norms of existence that do not have the same laws as ours. It is easy for the mind to imagine this, especially since already in the laws of our spirit we notice a fundamental dissimilarity with the laws of the physical world, and the duality of our being, which we so easily and irremediably notice in ourselves, gives a clear hint of the possibility of different norms and categories of existence.
All the philosophies of genesis created outside of Revelation represent God as some great power, but not omnipotent. Only Christian Revelation shows Him truly Omnipotent. And since He can do everything, then, of course, He could call being out of non-being and give the created being whatever laws He wanted, just as He can change these laws with new acts of creativity. This whole worldview is superhuman. But it is remarkable that it and only it explains to us all the mysterious aspects of our being.
Man is the highest form of God's creation of nature, but he has sinned against God – he himself desired to be God, and therefore is rejected by God out of His essence.
And now, on the Seventh Day of creation, the process of man's return to the abode of God – the abode of Love-is underway … the creation of man in the likeness of God … his voluntary birth from above … usingRepentance …!
Nature is just something separate from God's creations … But God, as the Creator, introduced some of his particles into it: nature is alive, and God is life !!!
The creator is the architect, founder, creator of the world, and this world is colorful and diverse.
And God is that evil and vindictive being who pretends to be the creator, lies to stupid people, imposes his straightforward dogmas, demands worship, punishes at the slightest disobedience, this is the father who sacrificed his own son to the crowd in the name of his glory and created Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
God is not the Creator! The Creator is perfect, but God is evil, humanly primitive and jealous, read the Bible.
Good day!
God is the Creator of the whole world, God is above the world and does not merge with It. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. It was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In. 1,3.
The teaching of pantheism ( the doctrine of the fusion of God and nature) is alien to Christian teaching. I will quote a fragment from a very good book “Religious and philosophical foundations of history” by the Russian thinker Lev Tikhomirov on this topic:
“But perhaps it is much more important to note the general concept of the world and of God, which is the same for all revelations except the Christian one, and which understands the world as an emanation from the Deity or identifies the world with the Deity. This was the view of the ancient Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Hindus, and they inherited Kabbalah, occultism, and modern theosophy. In revelations of this kind, one can see a fluctuation of thought between two assumptions: did the world with all its objects and beings originate from the divine element, or did there exist alongside the Deity as an organizer, an architect, a matter equal to it, from which the Deity itself was born as a result of some fluctuation of particles? But whether thought proceeds in one direction or another, one thing is clear: for such a worldview there is no need for Divine Revelation, for the idea of pantheism and emanation is purely human. A person cannot imagine anything else when he tries to create a philosophy of being, guided only by what he observes in the surrounding world of physical phenomena. The general idea of all these “revelations”” these philosophies of being – among the Egyptians, Hindus, Kabbalists, etc. – is that”nothing can be created out of nothing.” Yogi Ramacharaka (Jnani Yoga, p.93), who preaches Hinduism to the European public, very characteristically refuses to understand such an incongruity that” nothing “can be made into” something“. For him, this is an axiom, as it was in the ancient world in general. This axiom was proclaimed by Lavoisier in chemistry: “Dans ba nature-rien ne se cree, rien ne se pcroc” (Nothing arises from nothing). And of course, this is the law of matter. There is neither the creation of matter nor its destruction, but only transformation. Therefore, when the mind starts from observing the laws of matter, it can never accept the fact of creation. He knows only the generation of one phenomenon from another. The idea of creation could only come from the Revelation of One Who stands outside the laws of matter, Who Himself created matter, not in the sense that He made it out of nothing, but in the sense that in place of nothing He created something, created some being where there was no being. To this evoked being from non-existence, the Creator gave certain laws that were pleasing to Him, just as He could have created something completely different, with completely different laws. For the human mind, which does not observe such a creation anywhere, but knows only the generation, evolution and transformation of existing things, the idea of creating being in the place of non-being is completely unthinkable, it could not even occur to it, it is, so to speak, absurd, contrary to everything that we know, that we can think.
Therefore, it is clear that all the philosophies of existence that do not imagine the creation of the world out of nothing are not revelations from above. They proceed from such an understanding, which is peculiar to man. No revelation is needed to reason in this way.
We can see revelation only in the extraordinary, unimaginable way in which we and the whole world came to be, as we have learned from the Christian teaching of Moses. This is really something that we ourselves, with our own minds, could not recognize. Only the One Who created the world could tell this extraordinary thing. It is this extraordinary Revelation that proves its divinity. Nevertheless, the philosophies of the understanding of being themselves reveal their complete alienation from anything other than the forces of human reason, and by their very nature show that they are not given by the Revelation of God.
The Christian revelation of Moses communicates something that is truly unassailable by reason. It does not tell us so much about the incomprehensibility of God as the Kabbalah does, but it shows His incomprehensibility by this very act of creating everything out of nothing. The One who created the world out of nothing is, of course, incomprehensible. But this does not contradict human reason, if only reason takes into account the perfectly acceptable circumstance that the laws of our local, physical existence are not the only ones in the world, and that there may be other norms of existence that do not have the same laws as ours. It is easy for the mind to imagine this, especially since already in the laws of our spirit we notice a fundamental dissimilarity with the laws of the physical world, and the duality of our being, which we so easily and irremediably notice in ourselves, gives a clear hint of the possibility of different norms and categories of existence.
All the philosophies of genesis created outside of Revelation represent God as some great power, but not omnipotent. Only Christian Revelation shows Him truly Omnipotent. And since He can do everything, then, of course, He could call being out of non-being and give the created being whatever laws He wanted, just as He can change these laws with new acts of creativity. This whole worldview is superhuman. But it is remarkable that it and only it explains to us all the mysterious aspects of our being.
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Man is the highest form of God's creation of nature, but he has sinned against God – he himself desired to be God, and therefore is rejected by God out of His essence.
And now, on the Seventh Day of creation, the process of man's return to the abode of God – the abode of Love-is underway … the creation of man in the likeness of God … his voluntary birth from above … usingRepentance …!
Nature is just something separate from God's creations … But God, as the Creator, introduced some of his particles into it: nature is alive, and God is life !!!
No! Nature and the Creator are one.
The creator is the architect, founder, creator of the world, and this world is colorful and diverse.
And God is that evil and vindictive being who pretends to be the creator, lies to stupid people, imposes his straightforward dogmas, demands worship, punishes at the slightest disobedience, this is the father who sacrificed his own son to the crowd in the name of his glory and created Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
God is not the Creator! The Creator is perfect, but God is evil, humanly primitive and jealous, read the Bible.
Nature and God cannot be one!