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Originally Posted by Just a guy
My limited understanding is that Spinoza believed that God was a nebulous entity, basically as you said, the universe itself. That the universe was the creator of the universe.
At the bottom of it all whether Abrahamic or not, the belief is in a creator and that creator is responsible for the order of the universe.
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Describing God as either an entity or a creator is not Spinoza's God. Spinoza's God is more just like Nature. It's kind of like Spinoza's God is just things like natural laws, math, and actual stuff like you, me, trees, cars etc. He pretty explicitly does not believe in God as any entity as far as I recall.
Einstein believing in Spinoza's God is not at all like believing in a version of God that people go to church to worship. It's just like believing in nature and the laws of nature.