The seventeenth-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza insisted

A) that God is everything, identical to the universe itself.
B) that God is absolutely transcendent.
C) that pantheism must be wrong.
D) on returning to polytheism.

Baruch Spinoza

A Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin, known for his work in ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, emphasizing monism – the idea that there is only one substance in the universe.

Pantheism

The belief that God is identical with creation. Baruch Spinoza, for example, was a pantheist. Hinduism, in some interpretations, can be construed as a form of pantheism.

Polytheism

Belief in many gods and goddesses.