While pantheism asserts that God and the universe are coextensive, panentheism claims that God is greater than the universe and that the universe is contained within God.
Tony wrote:
> Christianity holds that God created the universe and God sustains the universe, but the universe is separate from God, just as human creations are a product of human creativity, but are not contained within humans.
Because humans and the universe have an existence separate from God even though created and sustained by God, humans and the universe can be subject to sin or can be out of sync with God and they are. Thus pantheism and panentheism are not true.