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Getting to Know God GOD’S TRANSCENDENCE & IMMANENCE

Everything that we’ve learnt about God so far in this series has suggested that God is different than any other being we can think of. He alone is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-present. He is the only being who is unchanging and completely independent. Is it any wonder that God says to us, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa 55:8-9)?

God’s transcendence

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