Fresh review

[Faith24]

Hi, I just like to have a fresh review on God being transcendent and Immanent. When you think about God being transcendent, how do you determine (based on what evidence) that God is transcendent and in what way? God, in another sense, also immanent meaning that He is also intervene in human affairs, and therefore act in the world. In other words, God is also in the world. How do you reconcile these two together?

Brother in Christ.

 

[solarwave]

By transcendent I might mean that God is beyond anything we could comprehend fully. That He is beyond time and space and in control of everything in reality. So God is high above the things we know about and experience.

But even though He created the universe He also keeps it in existance at all moments in all places and so gives God a closeness to all things that exist. God is all-knowing so knows us better than we know ourselves. God makes Himself known in a personal way and interact in the world. So I guess I would call that immanence.

 

[elman]

Hi, I just like to have a fresh review on God being transcendent and Immanent. When you think about God being transcendent, how do you determine (based on what evidence) that God is transcendent and in what way? God, in another sense, also immanent meaning that He is also intervene in human affairs, and therefore act in the world. In other words, God is also in the world. How do you reconcile these two together?

Brother in Christ.

I believe God can be anywhere He wishes to be. There is no evidence proving the existence of God. The evidence that God is active in this world is subjective and can only be seen in personal experiences.

 

[salida]

There is intellectual overwhelming evidence of bible BUT one is introduced to God spiritually because God is a spirit. Unless ones spiritual eyes are open-they will never see.

The other evidence is secondary because people see what they want to see-it depends on them spiritually.

 

[Faith24]

By transcendent I might mean that God is beyond anything we could comprehend fully. That He is beyond time and space and in control of everything in reality. So God is high above the things we know about and experience.

But even though He created the universe He also keeps it in existance at all moments in all places and so gives God a closeness to all things that exist. God is all-knowing so knows us better than we know ourselves. God makes Himself known in a personal way and interact in the world. So I guess I would call that immanence.

How does that specifically show that God is transcendent?

 

[solarwave]

How does that specifically show that God is transcendent?

Because that seems to be what transcendence is. Do you define it differently?

 

[talitha]

I've never heard the word "transcendent" applied to God, and the application doesn't seem to make sense to me. The basic meaning of the word is to "climb beyond" - but He is omnipresent, so there is nowhere to "climb beyond" for Him.