Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00557)

In a chapter titled "Location of God" in his book 
THE COSMIC WOMB, Arthur W. Osborn comments:

". . . when we ask such a question as, 'Does 
God exist?' we are virtually implying someone 
or something OBJECTIVE in the same sense 
that we as individuals are objective. To be 
existent is to objectively real; it is a particular 
manifestation of a primal 'isness.' We are 
therefore back again to the problem of immanence; 
and transcendence and immanence, if universal, would be 
pantheism."

"If God exists, therefore, He must represent some Reality having 
objectivity RELATIVE to man and, indeed, to the universe. But this 
poses the problem of reconciling the postulated quality of 
universality with the objective implication of being in existence. 
As we have noted, universality leads logically to pantheism, whereas 
existence, with its aspect of objectivity, implies LIMITATION." p. 
57 caps added.

Daniel 
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