That leads me to offer this simple definition of omnipresence (courtesy of John Bisagno): “The Lord Our God is everywhere at once.” He is everywhere present all the time. A 99% God is no God at all! If your God is not present everywhere in the universe, then he is not the God of the Bible. Some years ago a certain brand of soap advertised itself as “99 and 44/100th pure.” But God knows no such sliding scale with regard to himself. If we could conceive of even a tiny portion of the universe where God is not present, then we might conceive of a being in that locality who is greater than God himself. He said in essence that God’s perfection demands it. In his classic seven-volume Systematic Theology, Lewis Sperry Chafer advanced the following argument for omnipresence. While we would surely agree that Satan works today through a vast array of spirit beings who work his infernal will, he himself is no more omnipresent than you or I. This should give comfort to those who feel overwhelmed by attacks they believe to be Satanic in nature. There is no such thing as “partial omnipresence.” Because Satan is a created being, he is limited and localized in the spirit realm, as are all the angels and demons. By the same token-and even more obviously-either you are present everywhere all the time or you are not. There is no such thing as being 90% omnipotent, or 60% omniscient for that matter. Either you are omnipotent or you are not. But a moment’s thought will show the impossibility of that notion. They had somehow conceived of Satan as being like a “junior God” who could do everything God could do, only at a lower level. That thought apparently was new to many people. I also pointed out that Satan is also limited. When I preached this sermon, I comment that the angels and demons can only be one place at one time. All other beings are restricted to a given place at a given time. For that reason omnipresence is mysterious to us.īut we’re not alone in this. Is God all wise? Yes, and we can conceive of that on some level because we have wisdom and knowledge.īut there is no sense in which we are can be present everywhere! We can’t even be two places at once-a fact that we sometimes forget. Is God all powerful? Yes, and we can slightly grasp that concept because we have power and strength. Our problem is that we have nothing to compare to it. We can only be one place at one time, but God is everywhere at the same time.
Omnipresence is the hardest for us to grasp. He’s always wherever he needs to be to do whatever needs to be done- that’s omnipresence. He has the power to do it-that’s omnipotence.
He knows what needs to be done-that’s omniscience. Tony Evans comments that these three attributes work in tandem: The first means that God is all-knowing, the second that he is all-powerful, the third that he is present everywhere. They naturally go together since each begins with the four-letter prefix “omni”: Omniscience/ Omnipotence/ Omnipresence. There are three attributes of God that should always be kept together in your mind. And so does every hurting person who feels abandoned by the Almighty.
The seeker wants to know … and so does the skeptic … and so does the guilty sinner so he can run the other way. “Where is God?” This is a very important question. Thus we are introduced to one of the more difficult doctrines of the Bible-the doctrine of God’s omnipresence. “Where does the Holy Spirit live?” Another short pause. “How can he be in heaven and in my heart at the same time?” “Sweetheart, it’s hard to explain.” A short pause. “Does He live there?” “Yes.” “Where’s Jesus?” “He’s in your heart.” “But I thought Jesus and God were the same Person.” “They are.” While this is technically incorrect, the meaning is obvious.īecause it has consequences for combat similar to those of a speed statistic, omnipresence is affected by speed equalization in versus matchups.The scene: A young boy and his mother are having a serious discussion over lunch one day. Occasionally, the term is used in a limited way, such as "omnipresent in a city" or "omnipresent across the earth". An example of this includes being Omnipresent within a city or a planet. Nigh-Omnipresence is when somebody is almost everywhere at once. Some characters are Omnipresent within a single universe, while others are Omnipresent on a Multiversal or even higher scale. The ability lets you to be everywhere at once that is, at every point in space during a given instant. Omnipresence is the property of being present everywhere, whenever and nowhere at the same time, referring to an unbounded presence.
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