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How can a spirit be omnipresent?
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:44 am
by Jack3
God is a spirit, ie formless and bodiless. He does not occupy space. Then how can he be omnipresent?
Re: How can a spirit be omnipresent?
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:13 pm
by Obi-Wan Kenobi
He is present by His power and knowledge.
Re: How can a spirit be omnipresent?
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:20 pm
by Jack3
So omnipresence actually means omnipotence and omniscience?
Re: How can a spirit be omnipresent?
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:35 pm
by Obi-Wan Kenobi
Re: How can a spirit be omnipresent?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:09 am
by gherkin
Neilwade wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:20 amBut more importantly, the Holy Spirit has perfect knowledge of everything that happened, is happening and will happen. His presence covers the earth both physically and spiritually, so He knows all that is happening.
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?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:12 am
by gherkin
Jack3 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:20 pmSo omnipresence actually means omnipotence and omniscience?
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.
Re: How can a spirit be omnipresent?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:21 pm
by Obi-Wan Kenobi
He also knows things that could happen but don’t (or didn’t, or won’t).