Is God omnipresent?

Question

If evil cannot exist in the presence of God and God is omnipresent then evil cannot exist.
Or if evil exists, then God does not exist.
So either :
1. There is no evil, or
2. There is no omnipresent God

which is it?

Answer 1

In addition, he cannot also be all-powerful if he is omnipresent. You can't go anywhere if you are already everywhere.

Answer 2

There's the third possibility that evil can exist in the presence of God. In that case you could also argue God could be evil. Trying to disprove God's existence by defining God, while compelling, isn't always the best way of doing it. The problem is in the definitions. Evil is a subjective term. God may not consider somethings evil. God did cause the flood, Soddam and Gamorrah, and other purges. And let's face it no matter how compelling an arguement may be it's going to fall on deaf ears/blind eyes anyways.

Answer 3

God CAN be everywhere at once, this is not to say He IS everywhere at once.

Evil exists where God is not. Just as darkness exists where light is not. The Bible says God is not in the hearts of the wicked. This proves God does not dwell in all places. God CAN enter the hearts of the wicked and change them (removing the darkness) evil does not prevent God from coming, it dispurses when He enters.

Plus you have the sentence wrong. It is not "God cannot exist in the presence of evil" but "Evil cannot exist in the presence of God"

Answer 4

Another possibility is that your first proposition, that "evil cannot exist in the presence of God," is incorrect. Suffering is an evil; is God absent where there is suffering? Clearly not, at least in Christian theism.

You should ask yourself what you mean by "God," what you mean by "exist," what you mean by "presence," and what you mean by "omnipresence." Get those cleared up and you should have no problems ;-).

You philosophically ignorant atheists drive me nuts. Shut up and read something from a real library.

Answer 5

why do you think evil cannot exist inthe presence of God? When Satan accuses us, he accuses us to God. When God and Satan were discussing Job, they obviously were close enough to converse. God is omnipresent.

Answer 6

God is everywhere, and evil is everywhere, but God and evil cannot physically counteract, evil cannot be in heaven, but it can be down here on earth because God does not abide here on earth.

Answer 7

evil is the absence of Good> God is everywhere, but he allows evil to exist because he gave us free-will>

Answer 8

the way the OT characterizes God isn't "omnipresent" via our absolutist definition. God grew to become into initially reported to be the ambience (the air and the wind), as in Genesis a million:a million-2 whilst the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. It meant all the waters, the completed floor. it fairly is a personification of the ambience. Later, our kinfolk courting to God grew to become into made sparkling whilst he breathed into us the breath of existence. God is taken to be contemporary in the wind as much as our very own existence is contemporary in our physique if we are nevertheless respiration. existence grew to become into in the wind of our bodies in different words, and that grew to become into the relationship made. as quickly as we breathe, we inhale and exhale God out of our bodies. that's the beginning of the belief of being born lower back. Moses as quickly as reported that God grew to become into as close to as our mouths. He did not recommend speaking, he meant respiration. it fairly is why maximum of languages use the notice for "wind" interchangeably with the notice for "spirit", in Hebrew the notice "ruach".

Answer 9

Number two would be the answer. Just another contradiction in scipture (someone needs to write a book to document scriptural contradictions... no wait, someone needs to write a collection of books on scriptural contradictions).

Answer 10

I beleave god is every where and alseeing I do not see your point