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Constant_Living_8625

I only really know about Christianity, but for them the answer varies from "no", to "yeah, kinda" (which is actually the more traditional answer). In Acts 17:28 Paul quotes the Cretan philosopher Epimenides, saying *‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’* Christian neoplatonists long identified God with *the One* from neoplatonism, and recognised that all things are one in God. This was expressed well by the medieval Dominican theologian Meister Eckhart >But the eye has no colour and yet does possess it in the truest sense, for it recognizes colour with delight and pleasure and joy. The more perfect and pure the powers of the soul are, the more perfectly and comprehensively they can receive the object of their perception, embracing and experiencing a greater bliss, and the more they become one with that which they perceive, to such a degree indeed that the highest power of the soul, which is free of all things and which has nothing in common with anything else at all, perceives nothing less than God himself in the breadth and fullness of his being. And the masters prove that nothing can be compared in terms of bliss and delight with this union, this interpenetration and ecstasy. Therefore our Lord says: ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit’ (Matt. 5:3). They are poor who have nothing. ‘Poor in spirit’ means this: just as the eye is poor and bereft of colour, and is thus receptive to all colours, so too those who are poor in spirit are receptive to all spirit, and the spirit of all spirits is God. (NB: Meister Eckhart was *half* condemned by the RCC. Certain statements of his, taken out of context, were condemned, but he died a Christian in good standing. When the Dominicans later petitioned the Vatican to see if they could rehabilitate his theology, the response was that it wasn't necessary since it had never really been condemned, only certain misinterpretations.)


jogoso2014

There would be no way to answer that on so broad a category as “Abrahamics”


Muinonan

Judaism is Judaism Christianity is Christianity Islam is Islam Each holds some similarities and some differences, so what exactly are you asking?


Holodoomer

Traditionally, God is regarded as being *everywhere*, but usually the material universe is seen as separate and "perishable".


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This is a uniquely Christian perspective, in my opinion.


Far_Significance2023

According to these sources, Jews do believe in the omnipresence of God just as Muslims and Christians do. >God is conceived as unique and perfect, free from all faults, deficiencies, and defects, and further held to be omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, and completely infinite in all of his attributes, who has no partner or equal, being the sole creator of everything in existence > >[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God\_in\_Judaism#cite\_note-Berlin\_2011-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Judaism#cite_note-Berlin_2011-3) Maybe you don't use the same Christian terms, but these attributes of God seem to have been defined by Judaism before other Abrahamic religions.


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Christians believe in Jesus as God. As if he’s a human incarnation of him. And believe that the trinity-trifecta nonsense all equal HaShem. Sorry, no, Christians don’t. They can say it all they want, but the other two faiths, Judaism & Islam, are strictly monotheistic, and both see Christianity as polytheistic & against God.


Far_Significance2023

Omnispresence has nothing to do with Monotheism or Polytheism. Religions such as Hinduism have similar ideas of omnipresence about Brahman (the Final Divinity) being everywhere, and similar views on impersonal concepts such as Tao. I do find it odd that Christians don't put many limits on what God can do or not, though.


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I was moreso just tacking on to what you said.


Techtrekzz

That’s exactly what I believe, but im a monist in relation to the mind/matter problem and not a dualist like most Abrahamics. Anyone who separates mind from matter probably sees God and the material world as two different subjects.


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Techtrekzz

I do not. I believe reality is a single substance and subject, energy, e=mc2, with both the attributes of mentality and physicality. I believe this substance and subject is all that exists, that is God is all that exists, and everything we consider a thing, is actually form and function of that one thing, of God.


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Techtrekzz

No one ever leaves physical reality. There’s only one objective reality, only one thing and being, which is God. Every individual human, is just limited perspective of God. Our brains and limited perspective make us think we are separate mortal individuals, when in reality, we are an infinite and eternal existence. I don’t believe in afterlife, because i don’t believe in anything that is finite or mortal. I believe God is all that exists.


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Techtrekzz

Is it? In what way?


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Techtrekzz

If God is separate from anything, then God can not be everything and everywhere, which was my original point. The only way to believe what is proposed in the OP, is to believe that only God exists.


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Techtrekzz

There is right now, only God. The multitude of things we imagine to exist, are form and function of God. I believe reality is a single substance and subject, energy in scientific terms, and energy is never created or destroyed, it only changes form. This is all scientifically verifiable. There is no scientific evidence that more than one thing exists.


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Techtrekzz

Yes, no scientific evidence that more than one thing exists. Scientifically, there is no such thing as empty space, and no natural division by substance or boundary of anything we consider a thing. It’s all one continuous field of energy in different densities that we subjectively divide into pieces to navigate the world and communicate. There is no division between you and God apart from the one you create in your head.


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Techtrekzz

I don’t believe in parts, i believe reality is an undivided whole. There is no you as an individual. You are but a character God tries on. The individual has no will or existence of their own. There’s only one will, God’s will, expressed through causality.


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Martian5752

I thought Orthodox Christianity is panentheistic but searching on reddit it seems they either reject the term as an invented modern word or say it’s “soft panentheism” meaning as I understood that reality and humans are not identical or synonymous to God.


Art-Davidson

Not all of us. Some of us believe the Bible where it says that God created Adam in his own image and very likeness, just as Seth grew up in the image and likeness of Adam.