The text leads us to the old question...
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The text leads us to the old question -- whether God is imminent (here in and among us) or transcendent (beyond us). If God is in the Jerusalem Temple, how can he still be God who is not confined to the temple? There is a cutting-edge theological position today called Process Theology, which speaks of Panentheism -- that God is both imminent and transcendent at the same time. The universe is said to be identical with God, but that God is more than the universe (Alfred N. Whitehead, Process and Reality, pp. 36-37, 39). Thus what happens to us happens to God, and yet God is so much more than we are.
To illustrate this point we could return to Augustine's idea used on August 5 of God as the infinitely huge ocean into which is found a grain of sand that is the universe. Another image is that of the fetus in the mother's womb. As the fetus is virtually identical with the mother in the pregnancy, yet the mother is more than the fetus, so we children of God relate to the heavenly mother.
To illustrate this point we could return to Augustine's idea used on August 5 of God as the infinitely huge ocean into which is found a grain of sand that is the universe. Another image is that of the fetus in the mother's womb. As the fetus is virtually identical with the mother in the pregnancy, yet the mother is more than the fetus, so we children of God relate to the heavenly mother.
