(June 2, 2016 at 2:29 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Funny, that - because that's NOT what omnipresent means. He just made up his own definition that suits him - and perhaps other irrational people - but is meaningless and useless for anyone else.
omnipresent
ɒmnɪˈprɛz(ə)nt/
adjective
- (of God) present everywhere at the same time.
- widely or constantly encountered; widespread.
"the omnipresent threat of natural disasters"
synonyms:
present everywhere, ubiquitous, general, universal, worldwide, global,all-pervasive, all-present, infinite, boundless;
See - nothing about "knowing what's happening". What he is - and you are - talking about is "omniscience". Try to keep your magical nonsense straight, would you? Else we're bound to think you're making it up as it's convenient for you.
Do you think there might be more to the concept than the 6 word phrase you got from an internet dictionary entry? I found this in literally 60 seconds:
Judeo-Christian beliefs constitute a third opinion on omnipresence. To both mainstream Jewish and Christian religions, God is omnipresent. However, the major difference between these monotheistic religions and other religious systems is that God is still transcendent to His creation and yet immanent in relating to creation. God is not immersed in the substance of creation, even though he is able to interact with it as he chooses. He cannot be excluded from any location or object in creation.[6] God's presence is continuous throughout all of creation, though it may not be revealed in the same way at the same time to people everywhere. At times, he may be actively present in a situation, while he may not reveal that he is present in another circumstance in some other area. The Bible states that God can be both present to a person in a manifest manner (Psalm 46:1, Isaiah 57:15) as well as being present in every situation in all of creation at any given time (Psalm 33:13-14). Specifically, Oden states (pg. 68-69) that the Bible shows that God can be present in every aspect of human life:
- God is naturally present in every aspect of the natural order, in every level of causality, every fleeting moment and momentous event of natural history...(Psalm 8:3, Isaiah 40:12, Nahum 1:3)
- God is actively present in a different way in every event in history as provident guide of human affairs (Psalm 48:7)
- God is in a special way attentively present to those who call upon his name, intercede for others, who adore God, who petition, who pray earnestly for forgiveness (Gospel of Matthew 18:19, Book of Acts 17:27)
- God is judicially present in moral awareness, through conscience (Psalm 48:1-2, Epistle to the Romans 1:20)
- God is bodily present in the incarnation of his Son, Jesus Christ (Gospel of John 1:14, Colossians 2:9)
- God is mystically present in the Eucharist, and through the means of grace in the church, the body of Christ (Ephesians 2:12, John 6:56)
- God is sacredly present and becomes known in special places where God chooses to meet us, places that become set apart by the faithful remembering community (1 Corinthians 11:23-29) where it may said: "Truly the Lord is in this place" (Genesis 28:16, Matthew 18:20)"
Perhaps there is something in there that you would like to reasonably discuss?