How exactly is pantheism herasy?

[averheyen]

Can anyone answer this?

My question is, on a metaphysical level, how is Pantheism herasy?

I’ve heard the explinations by the Dali Lama and others like Deepak Chopra, and they seem pretty convincing.

But I know better, lol.

Can anyone help me with this, thx

• Adam

 

[dacoobob]

Pantheism says that God is in everything in the universe, which is true as far as it goes-- but it denies that He is anything more than that. In other words, pantheism affirms God’s immanence, at the expense of His transcendence. God is in everything, yes, but He is not ONLY in everything. He is more than the universe.

 

[FCEGM]

newadvent.org/cathen/11447b.htm

. . .The Church has repeatedly condemned the errors of pantheism. Among the propositions censured in the Syllabus of Pius IX is that which declares: “There is no supreme, all-wise and all-provident Divine Being distinct from the universe; God is one with nature and therefore subject to change; He becomes God in man and the world; all things are God and have His substance; God is identical with the world, spirit with matter, necessity with freedom, truth with falsity, good with evil, justice with injustice” (Denzinger-Bannwart, “Ench.”, 1701). And the Vatican Council anathematizes those who assert that the substance or essence of God and of all things is one and the same, or that all things evolve from God’s essence (ibid., 1803 sqq.). . .