- Within religious and philosophical thinking there are a number of different concepts of God found in our world today. Some of the most common are these.
- Atheism says there is no God.
- Agnosticism says there may be a God, but we can’t know for sure.
- Deism says there is a God who started the universe, but this God is now distant and unknowable.
- Theism says there is a single God who is knowable, either personally or through revelation.
- Pantheism says that everything is God and God is an impersonal force.
- Panentheism says there is a God who is distinct from the universe, but the universe exists within God or as an extension of God.
- Polytheism says there are many finite gods.
- Animism says there are many finite gods who spiritually indwell the natural world.
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