Abstract
I am not a pantheist and I don't believe that pantheism is consistent with Christianity. My preferred speculation is what I call the Swiss Cheese theory: we and our artefacts are the holes in God, the only Godless parts of reality. In this paper, I begin by considering a world rather like ours but without any beings capable of sin. Ignoring extraterrestrials and angels we could consider the world, say, 5 million years ago. Pantheism was, I say, true at that time. That is my qualified endorsement of pantheism. I then use the Sin premise, namely that we are capable of sinning, to argue that beings like us are not parts of God and I examine some consequences.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 464-473 |
| Journal | Sophia |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- Philosophy of Religion
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