(A disclaimer, for what it is worth: This is a serious question, and it is not meant to be part of the debate about whether God exists or does not exist. Theists believe that God exists and they are the focus of my question.
I would like to know where theists (those who believe that God exists) believe that God is at this very moment.
Atheists and agnostics are free to respond too, but please don't say derogatory things like "He's all in your head." Thanks.)
2006-07-31 12:47:42 · 48 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe god is within the spirit of all living things. God - by whatever name you call him/her/it - is the divine spark of life which also gives life and takes life away, yet continues on indefinitely throughout all time and space.
2006-07-31 12:50:10 · answer #1 · answered by Jylsamynne 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's hard to imagine for human beings to grasp the idea that God is everywhere, but He is. He is omnipresent meaning he can be in one part of the world and be here at the same time. There is no escaping God. He can be in outer space, in Heaven, in a cave, under the sea, ontop of the highest mountain, all at once. He is God and can go anywhere He chooses to go. Nothing or no one can bind God from going anywhere He chooses to go. Nothing or no one is more powerful than He is.
What about you? What do you believe? Where do you think God is right now?
2006-07-31 13:07:43 · answer #2 · answered by Lyndee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the place... do u mean that... god is out of place or time, those things are human principles and if u mean the existence .... he is every where ... how ? i will tell you... what do u mean by someone is here ?? he hears u, sees u, and can change any thing in that place ie do an action so he is here, and god can do those things any where the place of something doesn't mean the place where it seen in as u can see things which it doesn't exists like the mirage and things which u see altered from its place ... also hearing is like that so don't always believe Ur senses a tablet of LSD can make u live in china while u r in new york... reason and thinking is the only way to reach the truth...
2006-07-31 13:05:27 · answer #3 · answered by Mohamad 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of the answers I have gotten in my debates are...
1. Heaven(where is heaven then)
2. Sub or extra-dimensinal (prove one of these exist first)
3. Everywhere (if so then we could test for him)
4. Change Theory (intresting but highly limits the posibility of a personal god)
2006-07-31 22:32:00 · answer #4 · answered by upallnite 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God transcends "where". No answer to this question could even theoretically be correct because any answer will place God "somewhere". And for God to be somewhere, as opposed to somewhere else, would mean that God does not transcend location, but is rather bound by its rules. But "location" was something created by God -- and I don't mean that merely based on "faith"; the very concept of God demands that this be so -- and therefore trying to find God in some location -- whether that objective or subjective, "omnipresent" or "nowhere", "in heaven" or "in our hearts", or even "everywhere and nowhere" -- fails to comprehend that God is before location is and therefore any answer that relies on any conceivable location is necessarily partial, and therefore incorrect (for lack of a better way of putting it).
2006-07-31 13:35:09 · answer #5 · answered by Nitrin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has three personalities or facets, if you will. The reason He exists in this multifaceted form is that each form serves its own purpose.
His physical fortress and the place where God the Father resides is actually outside the universe.I tend to think it is "above" the physical universe since a number of indicators lead to that conclusion (too lengthy to go into here). God the Father, as many "theists" think of Him, was the actual Creator of this universe and everything in every universe. Not being subject to the laws of this universe, He lives outside it.
Then there was the manifestation of God cloaked in human flesh for the distinct purpose of sacrificing Himself for all mankind. This was God's Son, so called because He was "birthed" by God the Father, breathing His breath into the womb of a young girl about 2000 years ago. (Over 360 prophecies written over thousands of years predict every aspect of His coming, most of which have been fulfilled in precise detail.) His Hebrew name is Yeshua. In English it is Jesus. That simply means "Savior".Jesus is recorded to now have a spiritual body that also can interact with the earthly dimension since after His Resurrection He was able to eat, walk through doors, and sit and walk with His students.He now sits at "The Right Hand of The Father" on His Throne. This is where He sits until the time of His soon-coming Return.
Thirdly, there is the manifestation of The Presence of The Father as well as the Son. This is logical since The Son said that He and The Father were "One". When someone's physical body dies what is left? Spirit. All mankind benefits by the recorded fact that when the Messiah left He promised to send His Spirit. He sent His Spirit at a landmark event called "Pentecost".The reason we benefit is that:
All mankind can experience His presence at the same time. Being Spirit He can now be with everyone everywhere...if they want Him. So He is everywhere, and with us. It is written that in the Last Days God is pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh. That means that He is as close as you want Him to be. Next to you or in your "heart". That is where He most wants to be. He knocks at the door of everyone's heart. Those who open up the door get to live with Him every day,basking in His Spirit, right here on Earth. What an exciting life!
2006-07-31 13:14:17 · answer #6 · answered by LL 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, God can be anywhere that God wants to be! No on can tell God that a certain place is too exclusive or too good for him.
I think that you are really asking why we cannot see him, if in fact "in him we live and move and have our being" (that is, he is everywhere).
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Acts 17 :24-31 (NIV)
"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
"Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man's design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."
2006-07-31 13:02:48 · answer #7 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given that your ID suggests that you have some interest in Buddhism, I'd like to point out that the concept of God as portrayed in Western Theology has some analogy with the concept of a Dharma-body of the Buddha found in Buddhist Theology.
2006-08-01 07:33:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose you'd call me agnostic since I believe God is unknowable.
I attended a Biblical Analogical conference with one Jewish and one Christian speaker. The title of one lecture was "Where Did God Go?"
In Biblical times, there were many many gods, but the Israelite God was invisible. They carried Him in the ark and thought of Him as residing there. In battles, other nations protected their king by keeping him in the middle of the troops, just as the Israelites protected their "king" by making the arc inaccessible.
But where did God go when the Temple was destroyed and God no longer resided in the ark?
They suggested that for Christians He became Jesus and for Jews, He resides in the words of Torah.
I know it's not literal, but I loved the allegory.
Shalom
2006-07-31 12:58:23 · answer #9 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its an interesting philosophical question
the dilemma arrives from the fact that for G-d to exist he must be eternal. And then this eternal being created things that were not eternal such as himself. If G-d were the only thing first in existence then everything must exist within him because their was no space other than what is in him.
that being said we must conclude that it is a form of a paradox that we exist while G-d exists as well in the same space.
the best analogy I can provide is that of light going though glass. both the light and the glass are in the same space
2006-07-31 12:54:44 · answer #10 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is a category mistake. God does not have whereness. God is a Spirit. He is not physical. God's presence is immediately available everywhere. We say that He is omni-present because it is a way that we can understand. Omni-present means everywhere present. (Psalm 139). I don't really understand exactly how to answer the question of where God is, but I guess to put it in understandable terms, God is everywhere at the same time.
2006-07-31 12:54:28 · answer #11 · answered by jamesdkral 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋