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1 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | jlpangilinan | 73768 | ||
Good morning, There are many things there in my last post you did not explain (if you want) but you decide to quote part of that post You gave the answers Re 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. It was mentioned there "if any man hear my voice" it is conditional "if any" "if not" Hes not knocking on thier door. Ac 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; If He is not dwelleth in the temple made by hands how can be He is everywhere? I am sure if He is not dwelleth in the temple made by hands I dont think He will there inside our urinal bowl. So how come that God is everywhere. God has His Holy place which is heaven Christ mentioned that many times, but if pray for Him He can answer your prayer anywhere you are even He is heaven. As a matter of fact almost all the time when Christ pray He look up because He knows His Father was there in heaven, and He can answer prayer from Heaven because He all powerful. God bless, |
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2 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 73780 | ||
"Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? says the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the LORD. Jeremiah 23:23-24 "He is in all things giving them being, power and operation; so He is in every place as giving it existence and locative power." Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica http://www.newadvent.org/summa/100800.htm |
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3 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | jlpangilinan | 73785 | ||
Emmaus, I agree with that scriptures, but it is not means that He is everywhere, I know God can see us even He is in heaven. If He is really in everywhere why in the lord prayers Jesus taught us "Our Father which art in Heaven" and not "Our Father which art in everywhere" even in the catholic churches I saw them everytime the pray the Lords Prayer they dont look in anywhere, under the chair, the table and they recite which art in Heaven and not which is in everywhere. Why do we have to say that Our Father in Heaven if He is in everywhere? Christ manytimes pray and look up to heaven, do you think He is an actor praying to somebody in Heaven if He is not there? Why He had to look up? Why He dont just look in the stones, the grass in the gitsemane if God is everywhere? I understand God is Holy He is not dwelleth Ac 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; As being Holy He has place for Him and that is in heaven as Christ always mentioned. God bless, |
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4 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 73797 | ||
Once more, Johnny, you have raised an irrelevant question; ignored Scripture after Scripture that point out that while God is indeed in heaven, He is omnipresent; and taken a couple of verses to attempt to make yourself seem wiser than all the Old and New Testament saints. Why? --Joe! |
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5 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | jlpangilinan | 73798 | ||
For your information I am not make myself wiser that all the Old and New testaments, the scriptures stated that He is in Heaven, even Christ recognize that His Father are in heaven. I quoted verses even in the old testament that stated that He is not in everywhere: Ge 18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; Ge 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. If He is in everywhere why He has to go dowm to make sure that the cry was true, or maybe moses did not know that God is omnipresent. God talk to moses that way, and I think moses is reliable person as a man of God. God bless |
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6 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 73815 | ||
"For your information I am not make myself wiser that all the Old and New testaments, the scriptures stated that He is in Heaven, even Christ recognize that His Father are in heaven." Please read more carefully. I said that you are setting yourself as wiser than the teaching of the church throughout its entire history. That is arrogance to suggest that because of your two-verse argument, you have "dicovered" the error of countless millions of saints who obviously haven't read the Bible as carefully as you. And no one is disagreeing that God is in heaven. How about the approximately twenty-five verses that I have given that demonstrate that he is simultaneously in other places as well? Like I said before, you are completely ignoring verses which show you to be wrong. And I repeat my question: why do you feel it so important to argue this point so forcefully, as if salvation itself depended on it? --Joe! |
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7 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | jlpangilinan | 73864 | ||
I am not disagreeing that God can go in any places, what really my argument is the place that He stay, for example you have house to stay but sometimes you can go around. So your 25 verses is fine, God can go anywhere but it is not mean that He stays there, as the books of acts said "He dwelleth not in the temple made by hands" So if He did not dwelleth there it means He is not staying there. I feel sorry with my two verses argument, they maybe wrong that is why it seems no one believe in that or have assessment that is not meant that way. I hope moses wrote that carefully and I will read that more carefully. If you feel that it is arrogance to suggest because of that two verses, well I will not force you to do so. God bless, |
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8 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 73923 | ||
Respectfully, Johnny, I think you are misunderstanding Paul's statement to the men of Athens. When he says in Acts 17:24 that God does not dwell in temples made with hands, he is correcting their worldview, not making a statement about God's lack of omnipresence. The Greeks went to temples to worship statues representing their gods. In fact, Paul is using a statue dedicated to an "unknown god" as a jumping-off point for his evangelistic message. Paul is not saying that God is not PRESENT in these temples, but rather that God is not CONFINED to them the way the Greeks consider them to be. The view you are putting forth regarding God is much closer to the one the Greeks had and the one Paul was critiquing -- the notion that gods were finite beings who looked down from on high at everything and came down as necessary. If that is what the true God is like, then Paul's challenge to the Greek pagans makes no sense. Furthermore, Paul asserts that God is not far from us (17:27) and that in Him we live and move and exist (17:28). If God is only in one place at one time like His creation, how can all of us live and move "in Him"? Therefore, Paul is not contending that God is limited in space, but rather that God sets our boundaries (17:26) and we don't set His. --Joe! |
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