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How could God be everywhere and nowhere at the same time?

I've heard Protestants say they believe God is everywhere and nowhere while He also exists outside of time and space. Where do you get such ideas?

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  • 7 years ago

    The Big Bang is the creation moment, and aligns well with the biblical view of creation.

    There is no such thing as nothing, there never was a period when there was nothing. God is, that is why he is called eternal, God was, is, and will be. Our frame of reference is bound to the universe and its time, since we, along with the universe are finite and temporal.

    So the question of 'before God' is meaningless, because God exists in the place of nothing, thus nothing and a beginning for God is not possible. But God is the beginning of all that we know because we belong to the universe which was created by God. All the laws and properties of the universe that we know are about the universe which was created by God, God is not contained or constrained by what God has made. Since beginnings and endings along with time are fundamental parts of our universe we can not escape them, but since God is the maker and is greater than our universe, God is not bound to the same rules.

    Cosmologists believe that the Universe, and with it space and time and every thing it contains, appeared and expanded into being some 13.7 billion years ago at the Big Bang, and that it has been expanding ever since. Scientists know that the Universe had a beginning and the laws that govern it will produce an end to the Universe.

    Isaiah 43:10

    “You are My witnesses,” declares the Lord, “And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me.

    Isaiah 42:5

    Thus says God the Lord, Who created the universe and dispersed them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it,

    Isaiah 44:24

    “I, the Lord, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself And spreading out the earth all alone,

    Isaiah 40:22

    It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,

    Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain

    And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

    Isaiah 45:22

    “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.

    Isaiah 66:1

    Thus says the Lord, “Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest?

    Jeremiah 23:24

    “Can a man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

  • 7 years ago

    I don't remember hearing a Christian ever saying that. So I have no idea. How is anyone not anywhere?

  • 7 years ago

    No Bible-believing Christian would EVER say that God is nowhere. This sounds suspiciously like a straw man you've built to try to discredit something you don't seem to understand enough to comment on, because the Bible teaches that God is eternal in duration, and infinite in scope. Where you got the idea that God is nowhere, I haven't the foggiest; it's certainly not in the Bible. Perhaps you found it in the God-hating atheist's anti-God manifesto or propaganda or something.

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  • 7 years ago

    We get ideas like these from others who came before and thought wonderful, big, broad, deep, innovative thoughts, and wrote them down. And our many-great grandfathers read them,a nd in turn thought big thoughts, and so on, and so on, up to now.

    Join the conversation. Because of writing, you can find out what those ancient minds were saying. You cannot hear their words, but you can read their letters. It's not the same, but it will serve.

    Plato! Aristotle! Pliny! (both) Homer! Shakespeare! Goethe! Yevtushenko! Read! Read! Read!

    It is the one thing humans can do that no other animal can do.

    And if you read enough, you will finally get exposed to enough different thoughts that you will understand not what that thought you talk about actually means -- but rather how such a thought, in our society, was absolutely inevitable!

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  • 7 years ago

    God isn't some thing that's everywhere at the same time. His presence is everywhere but He is 1 Being although the supreme being

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    God wants to see how far you can hang on to your faith

  • 7 years ago

    God is word as word in your head , his body is infinity, just as the word in you is everywhere in your body, in the body of infinity so is God everywhere.

  • 7 years ago

    I believe actually he is only supposed to be omnipresent, meaning everywhere at once, rather than nowhere. If any Protestant disagrees then they are not listening to the rules about God in the Bible or have formed another interpretation (God is supposed to be omnipresent, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent - everywhere, all-powerful, and all-loving).

  • anon
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    maybe you should check the source material, the bible

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