TRANSCENDENTAL CONTENT The doctrinal content of the story, the lessons that persist after we finish reading it, the theological lessons we might call fundamental could include: • God is the only Creator of all things, of all the concrete and abstract, of what is above and what is below, of all entities and creatures. All matter, and the forces acting on it are created by Him and respond to His mandate. • The power of God, omnipotent and omnipresent,