God Is Transcendent

Now that we’ve toppled over the main theodicies that have been preeminent in the discussion of evil; we turn back to what should start off any conversation rooted in the Christian worldview – the character and nature of God. Specifically, God is transcendent.

God didn’t just happen upon the universe; He made it from nothing. As such, He is above all and all things that exist and remain because of Him. This is a scary thing for those in rebellion of Him and sadly that is all of humanity. We follow the author as he focuses on the characteristics that follow from God’s transcendent nature. Things like his magnificence, fully incomprehensible nature, and sovereignty are focused on to lay the foundation for the world that exists explicitly because of who God is and His ultimate power.

From that nature, we will see the most complete theodicy arise and that there really is no problem of evil. Just people who have problems with who God is.