Cosmos Body of God

COSMOS THE BODY OF GOD: ISA PURUSHA TATVA
M.M.NINAN
This brought into focus the three factors that made the void.
• The first was the Will of the Absolute,
• The second was the Act of allowing it to happen and
• The third is the Restriction to limit and contain the event.
These three principle at work within Ohr Ein Sof are called the three Zahzahot or the Three Hidden
Splendors.
These Zahzahot are the hidden roots of what would eventually become the laws that would govern
Existence. In the higher dimensions of life and existence each being is given total freedom to decide
and act within the limits of the bounds. There is no greater love than this that the infinite Oniscient,
Omnipotent, Omnipresent God, laying down his life so that the children will have freewill
In the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, as well as in the Church of the East, creation is not
considered to be a literal "part of" God, and the Godhead is distinct from creation. There is, in other
words, an eternal difference between the uncreated (i.e., God) and the created (i.e., everything else).
This does not mean, however, that the creation is wholly separated from God, because the creation
exists by and in the Divine Energies (workings). These energies are the operations of God and are God,
but the created is not God in the Divine Essence. God creates the universe by the Divine will, using
His Energies, that are not identified with His Essence. It is not an "emanation" of God's own essence
(Ousia), a direct literal outworking or effulgence of the Divine, or any other process which implies that
creation is part of or necessary to God in His Essence. The use of panentheism as part of Orthodox
theology and doctrine is "problematic" to those who would insist that panentheism requires creation to
be "part of" God.
Other Christian panentheists
Panentheistic conceptions of God occur amongst some modern theologians. Process theology and
Creation Spirituality, two recent developments in Christian theology, contain panentheistic ideas.
Some argue that panentheism should also include the notion that God has always been related to some
world or another, which denies the idea of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo).
Nazarene Methodist theologian Thomas Jay Oord advocates panentheism, but he uses the word
"theocosmocentrism" to highlight the notion that God and some world or another are the primary
conceptual starting blocks for eminently fruitful theology. This form of panentheism helps in
overcoming the problem of evil and in proposing that God's love for the world is essential to who God
is.
In 1994, a quintet of Evangelical scholars – David Basinger, William Hasker, Clark Pinnock, Richard
Rice, and John Sanders – published The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional
Understanding of God. (http://www.enc.edu/history/ot/what.html / )
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