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Where is God?
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- Roberta BLv 64 years ago
God is in the heavens, that is, not of the material universe which he made.
His power allows him to move his attention to anywhere in the universe that he wants, as Psalm 139 indicates.
Nothing is out of his sight, as Hebrews 4:13 shows - all things are open and naked and plain before him.
Solomon's prayer before the first temple in 1 Kings chapter clearly shows that his dwelling is in the heavens.
When Jesus taught us how to pray to our Father and creator, he said to pray Our Father in the heavens, or Our Father who art in heaven.
This omnipresent teaching comes from other doctrines that the Bible does not teach. God's oneness and his specific place of dwelling shows that he is a single person, not all gods, everywhere, not three in one. These other doctrines imply that he has a multitude of personalities, which he does not have.
The Schema, a scripture that is found in the Bible at Deuteronomy 6:4, and which is named after the first word in the verse - the first word being Hebrew for "Hear" describes this quality of our Creator and the only true God:
"Hear O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah."
Jesus Christ, who is claimed by some to be a Person in a Trinity, actually quoted that verse in Deuteronomy, in Mark 12:28
The truth is, that Jesus' Father is his God, and is greater than him, on earth and in heaven. John 14:28; John 20:17; Revelation 3:2,12
Visions of the true and Almighty God show Jesus at His right hand, in heaven.
Mark 4:61; Acts 7:55;Hebrews 12:2
- WestsideLv 54 years ago
Yes within the heart of all living beings, so to meditate and focus on your breath and heart, feel it's power and life giving force. Yes The Supreme Personality of Godhead is there. and knows all your past present and future thoughts, activities and lives. No one is closer but yet can be far away if you block the flow of God consciousness in you.
- 4 years ago
God is immanent- right here with us and transcendent- apart from His creation. He is everywhere at once without becoming part of it all- separate from, but involved in everything. He is said to reside in Heaven, which is somewhere else- not of this worldly system which He created. God is spirit, meaning He doesn't have a body and not limited therefore to being in one place at a time.
Call on Him; He is there... Search for Him; He was always with you... need Him: He responds as you speak
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- RajaLv 74 years ago
The relationship between God and human beings is like a relationship you see between a scientist and his robots. The robots will not ask the scientist who created them unless he programs in that way. The same is the case. God exists. God is a mystery even to spirits. The evidence for the existence of God is still inside you and all creatures. The animals cannot realize this truth because they don't have the sixth sense and they cannot understand any language.
- 4 years ago
God for me is utterly transcendent, but in terms of "experiential grasp" if we focus on a transcendent God, our mind becomes open and available to that transcendence, making for a kind of paradox. God is beyond all creation, unlike anything we can imagine, but also that understanding puts us in cognitive relationship to God - for me its like we have a brain system wired for God-thought and a relationship to the transcendent. Not just the brain, but the brain is the substrate of experience. As well as the brain we have that experience the "phenomenology" which existential theologians made so much of. A common analogy would be reading about love, as opposed to being in love. We know God, not intellectually, but through a relationship to His transcendent nature. It is commented that "knowing God" in the bible, its like Adam knew Eve. Its not a purely thought based relationship, but something more personal, albeit devoid of sexual character. Then again, as a Muslim I have paradise to think of. Being in relationship to an "absent God" is not just a vacuum, we have the ideas of heaven and hell, alongside lifestyle issues etc. Basically a form of knowledge through following instructions. So he is not exactly present, but He is still known in a close personal way, to the extent that our limited human capacity allows it through soulful apprehension of an "apophatic" nature (negative, transcendentalist theology) and is "close than our jugular vein" as the Koran says, not in terms of space I think, but in terms of knowing the secrets and attitudes of the heart and soul.