Discuss/critique Spinoza's God

[grand ravine]

I typed up one of my streams of consciousness, its unedited but I hope it's coherent enough. It relates to Spinoza's ideas of substances/modes and how there can only be one substance AKA what he calls God and Nature. This is just my take on spinoza (and a snippet of it) so let me know if u disagree, agree, anything!

[boreal prawn]

Spinoza's God is akin, or perhaps plays its role in modern times to give us the philosophical spaghetti monster sky God construct without understanding the information of new testiment that explains better what a "god" is when viewing wherewithal of both old and new testiments.

Spinoza's God gives us his Jewish ancestry Old testiment view of "most high" thing in existence. (Psalms 82:6).

Where as we can see Spinoza and most Jewish do not accept new testiment to see witness statements explain that the meme organism of old testiment evolved into flesh as Jesus.

In new testiment we have understanding that "god" is a title for top position, meme organism is biological nature for Jesus.

[sterile venture]

GG @boreal prawn, you just advanced to level 1!

[slender estuary]

Psalm 82:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV)

<6> I say, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;

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[boreal prawn]

John 10:34

[slender estuary]

John 10:34 - Revised Standard Version (RSV)

<34> Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods'?

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Isaiah 19:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV)

<25> whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my heritage."

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[sterile venture]

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[grand ravine]

Eh i dont think spinoza's god is some philosophical spaghetti monster lol, it's a very well thought out explanation for some greater causal substance, and this substance is itself the same thing as everything else we see around us (including ourselves), with only the illusion of distinction between things

Everything is substance, and substance is everything

Very buddhist/hindu like understanding of the world

[boreal prawn]

If calling force and energy a substance then it might work

[near tapir]

I appreciate the simplicity of Spinozan monism and necessitarianism, but I just find the label of ‘god’ rather useless at that stage.