The most radical disconnect between divine existence and the canons of ordinary cognition is voiced in the claim that God, in one way or another, transcends the world and everything in it. One sort of transcendentalism perfectly defends against skeptical rebuttals to the various arguments for divine existence, as well as against atheistic arguments to the opposite effect, based on evil.
Questions of relevance will become even more vexed when we examine the notion that ethical monotheism constitutes a paradigm (a way of taking experience, a particular way of spinning the world).
Although it is often said that God transcends this world and all that is in it, it is not always clear exactly what is meant by that claim, given that "transcendence" can be interpreted in three distinctly different ways.
Transcendence is the "transcendence of heft." This sets God up as a superhero whose powers cannot be matched. He is the strongest, the smartest, and the superlative of all human characteristics.
Transcendence is the "transcendence of distance or remoteness." This tries to show that since we are not in the Kingdom of Heaven with God, we cannot fully know Him.
Transcendence is the "transcendence of otherness." This expresses how God is non-knowable. As humans we are only able to distinguish what He is not, but we are not able to pinpoint exactly what He is.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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