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1 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | jlpangilinan | 73704 | ||
God is everywhere? Most of religion today teach that God is everywhere, but Christ taught us that His Father or our Father is in Heaven. Mt 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Is God is everywhere? for example in a places such as beerhouses red house. Ge 18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; If God is everywhere why this verse written the way like this: 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. Ac 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Please support your answer with scriptures God bless, |
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2 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | inmyheart | 73705 | ||
God has said, "I will never leave you, or forsake you." He is always and everywhere present. Here is how he said it through the prophet Isaiah: Isaiah 43:2ff "Fear not for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you… For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior…" Jeremiah 23:23,24 "Am I only a God nearby", declares the Lord, "and not a God far away? Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?" Declares the Lord. "Do not I fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord." John 14:16-23 "I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you… On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you… If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him." 300 years ago Stephen Charnock wrote concerning the Acts 17 passage: "In him we live and move and have our being" God is "not absent from anything, but so present with (everyone), that they live and move in him, and move more in God, than in the air or earth wherein they are; (God is) nearer to us than our flesh to our bones, than the air to our breath; he cannot be far from them that live, and have every motion in him. The apostle did not say, "by him" but "in him" to show the inwardness of his presence." Again, I ask you, where IS God? Listen to God’s own answer as given through the Psalmist David in Psalm 139 READ Verses 8-9 directly address the question, "Where is God?" In these verses David imagines the furthest distances away. In verse 8 he speaks of the highest place above and the deepest place below. In verse 9 he speaks of the furthest east ("the wings of the dawn") and the furthest west ("the far side of the sea" – the Mediterranean was west of where he was). Any direction David might go, and far as it was conceivable to go – who was there? God! God bless |
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3 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | jlpangilinan | 73706 | ||
Inmyheart, The verses that you quoted is very inspriring to the sons of God, its promises that God will not leave anywhere you are. But it is really answered my question. Aside from that you did not explain the verses that I quoted. I know God can be everywhere if he want, but for being Holy He stayed in Heaven as Christ always said "our Father which is in heaven" If God really is everywhere why everytime that Christ pray he look up into heaven? Why He dont just look somewhere else, under the table, in your drawer or in the mirror. Why Christ teach us the Lord prayers that God which art in Heaven. If God is in everywhere He would taught us "our Father which is in everyhwere" 14 times mention this word mention "Father which is in Heaven" in the new testament at least in my KJV twice the word "which art in heaven" but nowhere mention the "which is in everwhere". I believed that God can see everything, even in heaven. Other passages that will stated that He is not in everywhere is this: Mt 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. "for where two or three are gathered in my name, ther I am" see if there are two or three gethered He is there how about to thoses gathered not in His name but maybe talking about lust and other evil things do you think God will be there in the midst of them. God bless, |
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4 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | inmyheart | 73708 | ||
"how about to thoses gathered not in His name but maybe talking about lust and other evil things do you think God will be there in the midst of them." When we imagine the most evil place in the world, the darkest most horrid situation in existence, it is hard for us to imagine that God is there. In our finite minds we come to the conclusion that surely the very fact that such places exist means that God is not there. However the Bible clearly says in Psalm 139v8 "if I make my bed in hell, behold you are there". If God's presence can be in hell it is quite clear that He can be anywhere! "14 times mention this word mention "Father which is in Heaven" in the new testament at least in my KJV twice the word "which art in heaven" but nowhere mention the "which is in everwhere". Yes, however, Jesus was saying that OUR Father is in Heaven, when Christ died, He bridged that gap, now God can be in the hearts of men, everywhere, who believes God through Jesus. God bless |
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5 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | jlpangilinan | 73710 | ||
Inmyheart, Thanks for your time, Again I will quote that verse that you did not explain to me. What did really is to quote other verses but not explaining my question. 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 God is in everywhere why He had to go down to know the things that happened to sodom? Do you think moses as a man of God mistake when he wrote this? are we going to ignore moses. Quote"Yes, however, Jesus was saying that OUR Father is in Heaven, when Christ died, He bridged that gap, now God can be in the hearts of men, everywhere, who believes God through Jesus." Where is your biblical passages for this, again you said "God can be in the hearts of men, everywhere, who believes God through Jesus." you are right in the hearts of who believe but not in the hearts of thos who donot believed so God is not in everywhere: 1Co 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. When Christ said that He will leave the world and come into the Father it is clear that He leave and go to specific places, if God is in everywhere Christ need not to leave in order to be in His Father. Joh 16:28 ¶ I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. God bless, |
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6 | God is everywhere? | Bible general Archive 1 | inmyheart | 73711 | ||
Where is your biblical passages for this, again you said "God can be in the hearts of men, everywhere, who believes God through Jesus." you are right in the hearts of who believe but not in the hearts of thos who donot believed so God is not in everywhere: Rev. 3:20 God bless |
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7 | 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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8 | 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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9 | 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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10 | 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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11 | 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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12 | 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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13 | 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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14 | 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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