What scripture can be used to prove the Omnipresence of God

[SamMcNear]

What scripture can be used to prove the Omnipresence of God?

I really want some scriptures that talk to the issue of God living in eternity past. I found these scriptures but wonder if there are any better ones.

De 33:27 The eternal God is your refuge, And underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, And will say, 'Destroy!'

1Ti 1:17 - Show Context
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Heb 9:14 - Show Context
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God


Thanks

Sam

[darinhouston]

There's a few here:

http://hermeneutics.kulikovskyonline.ne ... s/omni.pdf

[SamMcNear]

I found the scripture that answers the question perfectly

Ps 90:2 -
Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

[steve7150]

I found the scripture that answers the question perfectly

Ps 90:2 -
Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. I found the scripture that answers the question perfectly

Ps 90:2 -
Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.




Are you possibly confusing omnipresence with eternality of God? Omniprecent means God is everywhere but he can be eternal but not necessarily omnipresent.

[Jess]

I've always liked psalm 139 which addresses His omniscience as well as His omniprescence. I see part of it is quoted in Darin's link.

[Admin. addendum]
Psalm 139 (ESV)
Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

139:1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!
20 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain!
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

[darinhouston]

This is an interesting discussion. For the sake merely of dialogue and sharpening iron, let me assume the part of the critic -- in such a vein, this is clearly a good poetic evidence that God is ever present "with me" (perhaps because He is in a sense "witihin" us) and follows "us" everywhere (though the poetry might negate the absolute literal nature of even that notion). But, it is silent for the proposition of whether God is everywhere present at all times and thus doesn't necessarily prove anything about the traditional notion of omnipresence.

This book (Encyclopedia of Christian Theology, by Jean-Yves Lacoste) previewable on Google Books looks to contain an interesting discourse on the development of the notion of "omnipresence."

http://books.google.com/books?id=nzTkg_ ... ce&f=false

[SamMcNear]

though the poetry might negate the absolute literal nature of even that notion

I think it would negate the absolute literal nature of even that notion of God being from everlasting to everlasting only if you could find that the terminology used here in Psalms 90:2 is used for someone or something other than God or is said to be none literal elsewhere in the Bible. Just my thought.


Sam McNear

[SamMcNear]

The real question about Gods Omnipresents I have is...
Besides what scriptures show that God was in forever past is,

Can God be in the past present future at the same time? or is He just aware of the past and future and lives in the now?