Omnipresence is one of God’s attributes. As I argued in an article at The Institute for Biblical Studies, however, this property is not essential to God’s nature and should not be understood in spatial terms. God is not a spatial being, and thus He does not exist anywhere, similar to the way in which we should not understand God’s eternal existence to mean He existed before creation. “Before” is a temporal concept, and since time began with creation it is meaningless to speak of anything before creation. Instead, we should speak of God’s existence without creation.
Similarly, as a non-spatial being God cannot exist in any spatial location. To think of God’s omnipresence in terms of occupying points in space is a category error, similar to saying the number seven tastes delicious. To say God is omnipresent refers to God’s cognizance of and causal activity at all points in the spatial dimension.
March 11, 2013 at 2:57 am
Wow, like reading WLC there! 🙂
(I’m rattling through the Defender’s Podcast series at moment!)
Although reading it the way you have has made it sink properly in so thanks! 🙂
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March 11, 2013 at 10:59 am
Scott,
I am a Craigite. What can I say?! 🙂
Jason
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March 13, 2013 at 6:21 am
Yet hold to Oneness…
I have to say, I’m with you on the Craigite side (only recently) so far with only disagreeing on creation/evolution but I’m thinking he doesn’t want that battle as it would hinder his work!!
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