Is God everywhere?

[Guest shadow2b]

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Rest assured God is everywhere, He may not be actively doing anything but it is impossible for any human being to draw a breath without God. It is God who provides for the just and the unjust alike. It is God who sustains all life, from the tiniest little Atom to the greatest mountain it is all Gods, every speck of it. God doesn't like some of the things we do, and there will be retribution for them, there will be weeping and sorrow, but there is no way that something else out there is keeping a heart beating, or a person breathing without God. There is not one living organism on this planet that even sighs without God knowing about it. This is all just Gods and we are just sojourners in this land.

In Yeshua's love

Teri

-wowwww-I think you pretty-well-summed it up very nicely--Teri-- :t3: :t3: :t3: :t3: :t3: :t3: :t3:

[angels4u]

Thanks, I do believe too that God is everywhere but he does not live in the unbeliever, this is so sad to realize, thats the only place where his present isn't.

We got to pray more people!

[ted]

Amen, Angels4u. One of the hardest things for me to overcome was the feeling I had towards other people. All of us need to keep in mind that God sees us in equal sin. It helped me to understand that all people need the Gospel. Now it's hard for me to shut up!

And yes, God IS everywhere, and behind everything. All is done for His glory. Amen.

t.

[angels4u]

Hi Ted,

Its so good to know that God is everywhere--its so peaceful to know that we are never alone--

God is not looking at our sins anymore, after accepting Jesus He removes our sins as far as the east is from the west, every time we confess our sins He forgives us and He will do that until the day we die.

I understand you are in Afganistan?

I pray for safety and peace for you and all people who are in war like situations, may God protect you and Maranatha Jesus COME!

Please Ted never shut up for Jesus---we were ones where the lost are now, we were lost in our sins but thank God, glory came and saved our souls !

Angels

[Guest fishingpenguin]

God is not looking at our sins anymore, after accepting Jesus He removes our sins as far as the east is from the west, every time we confess our sins He forgives us and He will do that until the day we die. 

Yes. When you are clothed in Christ (Gal 3:26), God now sees not our own sinful lives, but Christ's.

[ted]

Amen again!

I was saying God sees all of our sins the same way. Mine are just as bad as anyone elses. Of course, after Salvation, we are washed in his Blood and clean. My problem at first was that I couldn't see how anyone else could reject Him after hearing the Gospel. That was fixed be going back and revisiting my own rejections of the past and allowing God to show me love like I had never known it.

Praise to Him!

Yup, Angels, still here, but will be home soon. Thanks for the thoughts!

t.

[Guest mcm42]

According to this scripture God is everywhere, even in hell.

Psalm 139

7Where can I go from Your Spirit?

Or where can I flee from Your presence?

8If I ascend into heaven, You are there;

If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

9If I take the wings of the morning,

And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Since I didn't see anything new I figured I would search the archives and I came accross this post.

Ephesians 1:20-21

"20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. "

The question "is God everywhere" is slightly ambiguous. Does the fact that God is everywhere assume that he is "in" everything. I would say NO. God is Seated High above the earth, in heavenly places, that is where God "IS"

The above verse speaks of god's "presence" Dictionary.com's definition of presence is something to the effect of "The state or fact of being present" What is 'present' again dictionary.com states that to be present is "A moment or period in time perceptible as intermediate between past and future"

For instance, if I watch a murder, I was present at the scene of the crime. That doesn't mean I aided in the murder, it simply means I was present.

So the way I look at God's Omnipresence is that it doesn't refer to his physical location (where) but the Scope of his vision and influence. Does that make sense?

So in answer to your question, Yes God's Presence is felt everywhere, but is He everywhere, I would say no. He is seated High Above the earth, in heavenly places, that is where He is!

[His son]

Sorry but you can't intellectualize God's pressance out of any where. When He said though you make your bed in hell I Am there, that's what it means, God is Spirit, and He is everywhere with no exceptions, and it needs no interpretation.

[Guest mcm42]

When you start working in the factory and the gnostic you work with asks you "is God omnipresent" and you say yes... He has you!

He will then go on to explain to you that God is in everything, He is the sum of all that is, He is not "in the heavens" rather he is in nature in the trees, and he will tell you that that's what the Bible Says! But, you can not argue with him, because he is right... If God's Being is everywhere and God is IN everything, why can't God be be in the trees, in the grass, in bugs, and animals, rather why can't God be in all of us already!

That is why you must define omnipresence, otherwise someone who does not believe in Christ, may think He is right, simply because you said Yes God is omnipresent. To him Omnipresent means God is literally inside him! So then why accept Christ, God is already in me!

That is why I broke down omnipresence the way I did. It is both a Biblical stance and doesn't cause confusion in such discussions.

[Arthur Durnan]

Yes, and how many angels can dance on the head of a needle?

The Psalmist asks where he can flee to from God's august presence? And Paul tells us in Colossians 1 that the Lord Jesus created all things. He CREATED the trees, mountains, rocks & rills, but He is DISTINCT from His Own created creation. If He were not distinct from, then we'd have zillions of gods as in the false religion of Hinduism.

God is indeed everywhere. I am hardly anywhere. And I praise the God Who created all things for His marvellous works.

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