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''see also'' [[Existence]]''

''see also'' [[Existence]]''

The first verse of the Bible distinguishes God from the heaven and the earth.  The theological discussion of this distinction falls under the named topic of ''transcendence'', and the key philosophical concept with regard to God and creation is the two ''categories of existence'' (with regard to ''causes'', or rather ''sources'', of being) ''a se''—from itself and ''ab alio''—from another.  That is, God's existence is ''from God's self'' while creation's existence is ''from another''.

The first verse of the Bible distinguishes God from the heaven and the earth.  The theological discussion of this distinction falls under the named topic of ''transcendence'', and the key philosophical concept with regard to God and creation is the two ''categories of existence'' (with regard to ''causes'', or rather ''sources'', of being): ''a se''—from itself and ''ab alio''—from another.  That is, God's existence is ''from God's self'' while creation's existence is ''from another''.

Nowhere is this Scriptural doctrine more exemplified nor, perhaps, better artistically rendered, than by the hymn to God's omnipotence in the Book of Job and God's responses to the titular character and his three counselling friends in poetic speeches:

Nowhere is this Scriptural doctrine more exemplified nor, perhaps, better artistically rendered, than by the hymn to God's omnipotence in the Book of Job and God's responses to the titular character and his three counselling friends in poetic speeches: