Option One is to slide the two spaces together. God’s space and ours, in this option, are basically the same; or, to put it another way, they are two ways of talking about the same thing. Since God, as seen in this option, doesn’t hide in a corner of his territory, but fills it all with his presence, God is everywhere, and—watch this carefully—everywhere is God. Or, if you like, God is everything, and everything is God. This option is known as “pantheism.” It was popular in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds of the first century, mainly through the philosophy called “Stoicism,” and after
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