Many Christians think that God is some kind of nebulous spirit that is EVERYWHERE at once. The belief that God is omnipresent (everywhere at the same time) is sister to the doctrine that God has no body and is too great to understand. Romans 1:20 dispels this lie: "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are CLEARY SEEN, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse . . ." (Romans 1:20, NKJV, emphasis added)
When speaking I have asked, "How many of you have seen the leader of our country?" Most hands go up. "In person?" I query. The hands go down. What we have seen is an energy form, light, that comes from the television. Unlike God, the leader's body cannot generate visible light. So energy (light) from the studio lighting is bounced off his body and captured in the camera. It is there changed to electronic energy to be transmitted as radio wave energy to a satellite, etc. It is sent through the air, arrives at your television and is transformed back to visible light for your eyes. And because these radio waves have "intelligence" on them, behold, the country's leader is everywhere, in your home, across the street, in the next state, around the world. If you go into the television or electronics section of any major store the leader might be in dozens of places! Yet, he literally is in one place. Now, like God, the leader can generate an energy form called sound. Voice sound is the compression and rarefaction of air by the vocal chords. Like the video, this energy is changed at the microphone and transmitted to our television. The leader's image speaks. So God the Father is in one place at one time. But he is everywhere through the power of his spirit ("the power of the Highest" as it is stated in Luke 1:35). His spirit reaches out everywhere he wishes it to go and enables God to do mighty works anywhere as he wills. No, God is NOT everywhere at once, but in one place only. In fact, God does not appear to even have his eyes constantly watching every thought, choice and action that humans make. |
