The Jewish God is not transcendent because He cannot see Adam and Eve hiding in the Garden that He is supposed to have created.
A God can be conceived:
- that is all-knowing and therefore knows where Adam and Eve are hiding
- that is transcendent and therefore can see where Adam and Eve are hiding
This God would, therefore, be greater or more perfect than the Jewish God who is not all-knowing and is not transcendent.
Not all-powerful
The Jewish God is not all-powerful.
- And the Lord God said, “The man [Prophet Adam] has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.[3]
The Jewish God fears his own supposed creation, Adam, because he has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Adam must, therefore, not be allowed to gain immortality like the Jewish God. Therefore, the Jewish God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
A God can be conceived whose attributes can never be attained by any of His creation so that this God cannot by definition fear any of His creation.
This God would, therefore, be greater or more perfect than the Jewish God.
- That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered. Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.” Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”[4]
In this case, Prophet Jacob wrestled with God and defeated Him!
A God can be conceived Who can destroy His creation simply by willing it. He does not need to demean Himself by adopting a material form and then losing a wrestling match with His own creation!
This God would, therefore, be greater or more perfect than the Jewish God.