Words to show God's closeness & distance

Words to show God's closeness & distance

Transcendent

• totally beyond any created thing
• God is outside creation & not limited in any way, unlike all created things
• everything depends on God but God isn't dependent ony anything
• God is greater than the whole of the universe
• God isn't physical, but instead creator of all that is; physical & non physical things.
• God goes far beyond the whole of all that exists

Immanent

• Jewish & Christian scriptures there's idea that God is more intimately involved with the individual than the person's own breath
• God is foundation of your being, the one who keeps you in existence from second to second
• could be frightening; difficult to think of a being who is more involved in your own existence than you are
• could be supportive;…