…God invented and made the universe – like a man making a picture or composing a tune. … a God who takes sides, who loves love and hates hatred, who wants us to behave in one way and not in another… If you do not take the distinction between good an bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God Non-Pantheists Pantheists usually believe that God, so to speak, animates the universe as you animate your body: that the universe almost is God, so that if it did not exist He would not exist either, and anything you find in the universe is a part of God… …these people think that long before you got anywhere near the divine point of view the distinction would have disappeared altogether… If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all those religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth… as in arithmetic – there is only one right answer to a sum…but some of the wrong answers are much nearer being right than others Pantheism If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake. If you are Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. You can look at my more detailed notes, but this is an overview of the content of Book II of “Mere Christianity”… Chapter 1 – “Rival Conceptions of God” Quotations Truth in other religions
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