The more I've thought about the issues I first discussed in Semi-Arianism and the Second Ecumenical Council the more I've come to think that the Homoousion controversy became a distraction from the actual point of the Arian Heresy. But that's not me saying Homoousionism is wrong, per se.
So first we need to ask the question of why even did the full Arians (and even many Semi-Arians) object to the Homoousion formula so strongly? It was not relevant to Arius's original explanation of his Theology at all. And Arians did believe Jesus was the Son of God. Aren't most children made from the Substance of their parents?
It's because of how by this time the Pythagorean and Platonic understanding of The Divine had influenced all schools of thought in the Greco-Roman world. To them no Created Being could be described as being of the same Substance as the True Original God. The Demiurge of Timaeus could be considered in some sense Homousian with the matter it was merely rearranging, but even the Demiurge was not Homousian with the True God (at least during this later post Numenius of Apamea period of Platonism and Pythagoreanism). And the Arians were essentially Platonists who identified The Logos/Jesus with the Demiurge not the ultimate Supreme Being. However what the Arians and Athanasians and Trinitarians who were iffy on Homoousianism like Eusebius of Caesarea all agreed on was that Creation itself is not Homousian with The Father.
I am making this post to suggest that this assumption everyone at Nicaea agreed on is actually something that The Bible maybe doesn't agree with.
I know that many Christians are used to thinking God must be completely outside The Universe in order to be it's Creator. But if you know what you're doing, you can construct a circular wall in such a way that you are within it when you are done making it. And maybe the Substance of God is Infinite enough that He could create the Universe from His own Substance without lessening Himself at all?
When The Bible says that The Heavens are His Throne and The Earth His Footstool, that imagery tells me He's within The Universe not outside of it. Remember both the Ancient Hebrew and Greek words for "Heaven" at their core just meant The Sky and what we would call Outer Space. I already made a post arguing that the Light that lightened the Universe before the Sun, Moon and Stars were created was the same Light that Jesus is identified with. And then there is the fact that Adam became a Living Soul when God Breathed Life into him. Breath in that verse is also a word for Spirit. To me that is pretty strong support for at least our Spirits and/or Souls being homousian with The Holy Spirit.
InspiringPhilosophy in his video on Panentheism said there is supposed to be a strong distinction between Creator and Creation, but the only verse he cited was what Paul said in Romans 1. First of all that verse was only about what we're supposed to Worship and nothing else. And also Romans 1:18-32 is Paul quoting the beliefs of the Platonic Hellenized Jews of Rome he spent the rest of the Epistle refuting. In Romans 11 Paul tells us what God is doing in grafting Gentiles into Israel is "Para phusis" thus utterly destroying the world view of Romans 1 where being "Para Phusis" is presented as inherently evil.
Materialism is often assumed to be inherently Atheistic. However the Theology of the Ancient Stoics was a Materialist Monotheism. (IP for some reason defined Soticism completely wrong in the Panentheism video), and so was the Theology of Dutch Jewish Philosopher Spinoza.
God being in The Universe doesn't mean He would be in it in a way that our currently limited ablity to perceive it could detect. We now know there are at least 10 dimensions but we live in or perceive only 4 of them, the 3 spatial dimensions and time. "Dark matter" is just a term for matter scientists are pretty sure exists but we are not currently capable of detecting with any of our 5 senses, and it's estimated to make up 85% of all matter. The 6 colors our eyes can see are only a small piece of the Electromagnetic Spectrum, and it's the same with the other senses.
In other words No I'm not arguing that God and His Angels simply live on a Planet orbiting Polaris that we could fly a space ship to.
[Update November: See this post which is kind of a follow up.]
[The below digression into Stoicism I am more iffy on now, I don't want to erase it, it should have maybe always been a separate post.]
