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1 | 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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2 | 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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