Omnipresence, Philosophical/ apologetics question

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A friend and I were discussion abrstract ideas about faith,religion and God. He asked me about God being omnipresent. Would someone please link me, or give a brief discourse on Gods’ omnipresense.

Is He everywhere? If He in everything?
 
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A friend and I were discussion abrstract ideas about faith,religion and God. He asked me about God being omnipresent. Would someone please link me, or give a brief discourse on Gods’ omnipresense.

Is He everywhere? If He in everything?
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This link will bring you to an article that addresses that and other attributes of God:

newadvent.org/cathen/06612a.htm
 
Omnipresence is a natural consequence/characteristic of God’s omniscience and omnipotence. If He is all-knowing and all-powerful, He must therefore be capable of acting and knowing anywhere and is therefore omnipresent.

This type of presence should be distinguished, however, from a “physical” presence. As God is pure spirit, He is not physically present everywhere all the time, although He could certainly manifest Himself physically anywhere he wanted.
 
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Omnipresence is a natural consequence/characteristic of God’s omniscience and omnipotence. If He is all-knowing and all-powerful, He must therefore be capable of acting and knowing anywhere and is therefore omnipresent.

This type of presence should be distinguished, however, from a “physical” presence. As God is pure spirit, He is not physically present everywhere all the time, although He could certainly manifest Himself physically anywhere he wanted.
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this is kind of what I said, and his response was:
if God is not physically present in everything, is He still omnipresent?
does it mean He is everywhere and in everything?
 
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this is kind of what I said, and his response was:
if God is not physically present in everything, is He still omnipresent?
does it mean He is everywhere and in everything?
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You’re friend is obviously not understanding that God is Spirit; it is precisely because of His spiritual nature that he can be everywhere and in everything. He created and sustains everything in existence by His power; He doesn’t need what He has created to exist, but everything that He has created needs Him in order to stay in existence. If God did have a physical body, He would not be able to be omnipresent since a physical body necessitates being in a given place at given time (and in God there is no necessity).

This article, although not from a Catholic site, is a good presentation on the subject:

apostolic.net/biblicalstudies/omnipresence.htm
 
ok here is the question:

Is God everything(all matter and the space between)?
or
Is God a part of everything?

My friend wants to know if everything is just a “part of God” I am looking for ways to explain it to him.

thanks ya’ll
 
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ok here is the question:

Is God everything(all matter and the space between)?
or
Is God a part of everything?

My friend wants to know if everything is just a “part of God” I am looking for ways to explain it to him.

thanks ya’ll
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God should not be confused with his finite, imperfect creation. They are not the same. The easiest way of thinking about it is that there is no God-free part of the universe as everything is held in existence by God’s will, and without God, it would return to nothingness.
 
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Anonymous_1:
Is God everything(all matter and the space between)?
or
Is God a part of everything?

My friend wants to know if everything is just a “part of God” I am looking for ways to explain it to him.

thanks ya’ll
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No, God is not everything–He is not all matter and the space between. That concept would be close to pantheism.

But God is not spread out.

And everything is not a “part of God” because God has no parts.

I recommend this book.
 
if God is not in everything, indeed if God is not everything

(with everything being a “piece of God”) then how is he omnipresent?
Could someone give me a definition of omnipresence in regard to the attributes of God?

I am not trying to be confrontational, I can see where my friend is going with this question and I want to be able to understand and give a good explanation to him.
 
A purely spiritual being, such as God, can only be said to be “in a place” to the extent that it ‘acts’ in a place, because it has no physical parts to actually spread out in any space or place.

Because everything that is, exists only by reason of God’s continuing creative will, God is said to be omnipresent by the fact that he holds everything in existence. In that sense, he is at the heart of every thing, holding it in existence. But He does not take up any space.

He is also omnipresent in the sense that there is nothing, anywhere in the universe, of which he is not aware.

(He also, of course, holds the angels in existence, but they are also spiritual beings.)
 
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