How can a spirit be omnipresent?
How can a spirit be omnipresent?
God is a spirit, ie formless and bodiless. He does not occupy space. Then how can he be omnipresent?
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Re: How can a spirit be omnipresent?
He is present by His power and knowledge.
Re: How can a spirit be omnipresent?
So omnipresence actually means omnipotence and omniscience?
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Re: How can a spirit be omnipresent?
This makes it sound like God's knowledge is based on the observation of things, but that isn't so. God's knowledge is causal.
Re: How can a spirit be omnipresent?
No, and for multiple reasons. Most simply, God's omnipotence is far from exhausted by what he does. But his omnipresence is exhausted by where he is. That is, he isn't anywhere that isn't. But he can do things he doesn't.
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Re: How can a spirit be omnipresent?
He also knows things that could happen but don’t (or didn’t, or won’t).