| Godhead = the sum of all energy in the universe. |
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| Written by Footman |
| Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:48 |
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Godhead is a useful concept for Logical Pantheism. Deity may appear as Jehovah, Jesus and the holy ghost in one culture, and as Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma in another. We can say all are equally valid views of deity, representing different appearances of the same phenomenon in two different cultures. That common phenomenon can be described as a godhead with thousands of faces, the appearance of each face determined by the cultural viewpoint of the observer. This tenet is a description of how the face of the godhead appears from the Logical Pantheist perspective, and it can be expressed as a mathematical equation (As seen in the picture):  Traditional pantheism associates God with the forces of Nature. Literally, it sees God in all things. The traditional Judaic/Christian/Muslim definition of God holds that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. By defining the godhead in mathematical/physical terms, Logical Pantheists feel they have satisfied the pantheist, and the Judaic/Christian/Muslim definitions, as well as the need of science for a mathematical formulation of the concept. Since the godhead is defined as the sum of all energy in the universe, the godhead is, from this definition, omnipotent. Since energy is everywhere present in the universe (at least in the form of cosmic background radiation), it follows that from this definition, the godhead is omnipresent. Since knowledge exists either in the form of matter (e.g. books, films, etc.) or energy (e.g. computer memory, human memory, etc.), and since matter is a form of energy (from E = MC^2), it follows that the sum of all energy includes all knowledge, and thus from the Logical Pantheist definition, the godhead is omniscient. Thus Logical Pantheists feel they can represent an omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient godhead by a mathematical equation comprehensible by science. If someone is struck by lightning, the electrical discharge can be explained as the result of the sum of the electrical forces in the area. Thus a Logical Pantheist can maintain with verifiable scientific accuracy (based on the definition of the godhead as the sum of all energy), that the victim was struck down by the godhead. In the same manner, anything that occurs, occurs as a result of the sum of all forces in the universe, and can thus be said to be caused by the godhead with scientific accuracy. Taken from HERE |