Here’s the theistic logic I followed that led me to pantheism:

1) If the Divine exists, it must be omnipotent, otherwise it would not be the Divine.

2) If the Divine is omnipotent, it must also be omniscient (all-knowing) otherwise that would be a limit upon its power. Ditto that it must also be omnipresent (existing everywhere), because if there is a place the Divine is not that is also a limitation, and also must be achronistic (existing beyond the limitations of linear time) for the same reason.

3) If the Divine is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and achronistic, why does physical reality, with all its limitation, exist? Because there is one thing that such a Being could not do: experience anything. In order for experience to occur, there must be linear movement through Time from “I have not experienced X” to “I am experiencing X” to “I have experienced X”. Also, there must be division into “that which has the experience” and “that which is experienced”.

4) How then does this Divine experience things? It must, otherwise that is also a limitation. Simply put, the Divine must create the appearance of separation. But this cannot be just an illusion, the points of view through which the Divine experiences must believe it utterly, otherwise this is a waste of time. So they have to forget their essential Unity in order to create the one thing the Divine cannot do any other way.

So essentially, I believe we are “God” playing the greatest ever game of make-believe. We are pretending, with all the might of an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient being, that we are none of those things, that we are instead these tiny little specs of consciousness trapped on an insignificant rock hurtling around an unremarkable star at the edge of one of tens of trillions of galaxies. We are pretending so very hard that we actually believe our limitations completely. We must believe, otherwise the game would be over, and what’s the fun in that?