the problem is with "God said" because if you don't buy that then the rest is nonsense.
Well said : )
Communication is information from someone to someone else. Communication is not just letters, visible symbols, but also recognizable sounds that are highly organized and the basis for logic.
The three basic rules, or laws of logic, come from speech. The word in Greek, logos, means word and logic. The law of identity, or definition and distinction, states a thing is what it is and not something else.
This is the one denied by pantheists in their basic understanding of the universe, God, and man. I am God, or everything is God, means their is no ultimate distinction between what is "eternal" and what is not. Everything that is eternal is always here, never comes and goes. There is no possible way to affirm our own personal identity, hence the "illusion of self" and "evil".
In atheism everything is nature, I am nature. There is no distinction between what is and what is not "temporal", what is moral and what is not, everything is temporal, everything is changing. Everything is made up of particles that come and go, universes come and go, we come and go, ultimately from no where to no where. There is no way to truly understand how the universe or life began. Causes logically can't come from no where, hence the impossibility of trying to understand how the universe or life began.
In basic theism there is what is God and what is not. There are important distinctions between what is eternal and what is temporal, what is moral and what is immoral, what is infinite and what is finite, what is rational and what is irrational. In theism we have a beginning point to the universe and ourselves that has a relationship with what is eternal without contradiction, the second basic rule of logic and communication. In theism we are not just impersonal matter or the projection of an impersonal singular world soul. I am a "personal finite", intelligent/rational, moral/volitional/free being created in the image of a "personal infinite" intelligent/rational, moral/volitional/free being. God has his own eternal personal identity, we have our own temporal personal identity.
--Dave