Panteisme is die filosofiese en godsdienstige siening dat God en die heelal identiek is – dat God is die heelal en die heelal is God. Volgens hierdie opvatting is daar geen onderskeid tussen die Skepper en die skepping nie; alles wat bestaan is deel van of ‘n manifestasie van die goddelike wese. Baruch Spinoza was ‘n bekende panteis wat geleer het dat God en natuur dieselfde ding is (Deus sive Natura). Volgens hom is God nie ‘n persoonlike wese buite die wereld nie, maar die totale som van alle natuurlike kragte en wette wat die heelal regeer. Hierdie siening staan in teenstelling met die Christelike leer wat onderskei tussen God as Skepper en Sy skepping.
Pantheism is the philosophical and religious view that God and the universe are identical – that God is the universe and the universe is God. According to this view there is no distinction between the Creator and creation; everything that exists is part of or a manifestation of the divine being. Baruch Spinoza was a well-known pantheist who taught that God and nature are the same thing (Deus sive Natura). According to him God is not a personal being outside the world, but the total sum of all natural forces and laws that govern the universe. This view stands in contrast to the Christian doctrine that distinguishes between God as Creator and His creation.