Is God omnipresent?

Question

if He is how can there be an absence of God? or as this question explains http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061211121910AASk6Bw&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMhzFdVv4Kh1Sd_2IV0R0T8b_E3xpJhuvyrKOOfT4i4erwCArjFkWnkCb8Loz0JhB8Hw--&paid=answered#EMYoD2a.VGH1Lf7KjtAiLsmOVFt6X1zihIPmGItQeDL7pehlkU34
how can there be evil?
saying that evil is the absence of God doesn't explain anything since God is supposed to be so transcendant that there is no lack of God, He is everywhere. so we come to the conclusion that God is either not omnipresent or atleast partly evil.

Answer 1

Yes yes God is omnipresent, but you people keep forgetting one very important thing... he will not force you to do anything... this life is all about choice, You can choose to have God in your life or you can choose not to. That is how there can be a lack of Gods love in a person, he is everywhere and knows everything but he will not force anyone to do anything.

Answer 2

Good question. I have no answer. I think that He may be omnipresent but I do not believe that He gets involved with us here at all.

That does not answer your question, I know.

I do not believe there is a hell. Sin, hell and satan are man made words. As far as evil on earth, there is free will and dark souls. Of course, I am only saying what I believe.

Answer 3

This says "NO"

Genesis 3:8
And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord, amongst the trees of the garden.

Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid.

Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the town.

Genesis 18:9
And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

Genesis 18:17
And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?

Genesis 18:20-21
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and, if not, I will know.

Genesis 22:12
For now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

Numbers 22:9
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?

Deuteronomy 8:2
God led thee these forty years in the wilderness ... to know what what in thine heart.

Deuteronomy 13:3
The Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God.

2 Chronicles 32:31
God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

Job 1:7, 2:2
And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Hosea 8:4
They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not.