View that God is in and with His creation, yet -in Reformed theology- not of it ( COMPARE: Transcendence )
This doctrine affirms Gods activity in the world He has made The deists taught that God was transcendent in a way that is not taught in the Bible They believed that the world was like a giant clock which God wound up at creation It then runs by itself while the creator pursues other things Thus, in this view God is like an absentee landlord who owns a property which has been lent out to others, but because of the distance between himself and the house he never goes there to see how things are In opposition to this the Bible teaches that God is intimately concerned with His creation and constantly active in it He not only created it but actively sustains all things by His will (Psalm 145: 9, 14-16) Therefore, the world is not independent of God but dependant upon Him for its existence
the omnipresence of God in His universe The doctrine is a necessary constituent of the Christian conception of God, but when held without the parallel doctrine of Divine transcendence, it is commonly indistinguishable from pantheism (Cross, The Oxford Dictionary Of The Christian Church)