To start off, I really like Marcus Borg. His works are amazing, and I’ve learned a lot from what he has done.
I will be diving much more into this later on, but Borg is pretty right on here. Supernatural theism is something relatively new. It’s the idea that God is somewhere out there, as opposed to being more personal.
This view, which really latches onto the transcendence of God, that God is completely other, that God is out there somewhere beyond the universe. But this God at times intervenes in human life. This makes the question of evil so much more difficult as why didn’t God answer the prayers of the Jews during the Holocaust, but answer the prayer of my neighbor for a bit of rain.
This God is so other that it raises so many issues, and often leads to atheism.
Borg instead proposed panentheism, in which God is both transcendent and immanent. God is both part of everything, but is also more than everything. So you get this God that is much more personal.
I’ll dive all of this much more later on as it really is a large topic.
