Where was God omnipresent before s(he) created the universe?

Answer 1

You want to put the "s" in brackets like this (s)he, indicating that the "s" can be added to or removed from the word in brackets.

Omnipresent means "present everywhere", so the correct question would be "Where was God before (s)he created the universe?

My answer: I do not believe that God exists.

Answer 2

The argument is that if omnipresent means to be everywhere at once, and God is omnipresent, then God must be everywhere. It is then argued that because God is everywhere then when there is no "known" (by man) place in existence, i.e. the universe, then what existed before is only God.

What it really boils down to is that location, like time, is relative to position. There can be no direction and no place before "place" was created. Therefore if God was there then God just was. Some ancient texts speak of the oldest and most powerful angels, the archangels, as being overjoyed when God created the universe because God then created time, without which there can be no sense of place.

Without a universe, a place, or time...God just is.

It was also really easy for God to be omnipresent back then because it is simple to be present in every place and in every time if there is no place and no time. God's ability for omnipresence may have come as a surprise to God. Can you just picture God saying "Well, this is rather like putting the cart before the horse." Of course that would be hard to say because there were at that point no carts and no horses.

Of course God is not only omnipresent but omniscient so there you go.

Answer 3

Nowhere. There's no such thing as something that can know what everyone in the universe is thinking and every animal is thinking and the plotted actions of humans are at every single given moment and not take a rest ever. It would take a computer with 400 trillion (squared) terabit towers per square mile in order to do anything close to that, PLUS only a human knows what they will do for the day.

Answer 4

Unlike some of the bogus answers like that of "Indecent Truth Exposure", I am actually going to answer this question. The obvious answer is "nowhere," if you mean where in creation He was. There was nowhere to "be", so to speak. In fact, if you want to get down to it, in a sense He is "nowhere" now, and not because He does not exist. To be "somewhere" in particular implies not being "somewhere else" in particular. I can't be at work and home at the same time.

However, in another sense, I can be "at home" and "at work" at the same time - via email, teleconference, etc. In fact, I may be in neither place - I may be relaxing by the pool at a resort - and in one sense be both at home and at work, while in another sense being in neither.

That's one way to think of God's relation to his creation. He's not "in creation" in the sense of occupying a particular place and time - but He is equally accessible to all of it. The latter is what is meant by "omnipresence", at least to those who have a sufficiently adult understanding to understand the concept.

Answer 5

I'll go with the obvious answer of outside the universe. God is not contained within the time/space/matter world we live in. Most of the time you have to go outside the creation to find the designer.

Answer 6

Well, the physical plane is endless, so maybe god is still trying to find the ends

Answer 7

Probably in school getting ready for her science project.

Answer 8

Do you really expect anyone to have an answer for you?

Answer 9

God was omni-present at whatever was then.

Answer 10

In downtown?