IF evil, or "hell" is the absence of "God" how is it again that "God" is omnipresent?

Question

And for those Christians who disagree with this summation, if hell isn't he absense fo god for you, but god is omnipresent, does this mean god is in hell?

Answer 1

Excellent point.

But I don't think it proves the absence of god so much as it proves the absence of hell. Hell is some nonexistent place that humans invented to threaten each other and perpetuate hate.

No god would be rotten enough to even _fathom_ a place like hell, or to condemn _any_ person to eternal torture and misery (no person who ever existed anywhere is completely, totally evil, anyway).

Answer 2

Yawn - Easy logic for the atheistic mind


The element of Christianity that teaches that God is omnipresent is found in the bible.

The bible was written for people - living people - here on earth, not in hell.

Hence God is ominpresent where people are present. If there were people in hell to whom the bible was written for then you would have a point.


Another way to put it - when you give your address, do you say 5555 Yahoo Road, Texas, USA, EARTH. No one adds Earth to the end of an address. Until a population begins to flourish on Mars or Venus, such an addition is not neccesary.


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Answer 3

Hell is place where people choose to live eternally without God, since they made that decision during their life.
Understand this, if you welcome God fully into your life and spirit, God will be there. If you don't, God will not be where He is not welcome.
Thus, God can be everywhere but He will not be where people don't want Him.
His presence is not in Hell b/c those there have chosen not to have them in their life.

Answer 4

It probably has something to do with actively rejecting God rather than God literally being absent. Like 'evil' is when God is put on hold.

Answer 5

If hell is the absence of God, then isn't my favorite bar actually hell?

Answer 6

Hell is eternal separation from God.
Rev. 14:10
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the PRESENCE of the holy angels, and in the PRESENCE of the Lamb:

And yet away from God's presence
2 Thes. 1:9
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

Answer 7

God is with you now, do you feel it? Same thing in hell. People just are not aware of God presence in their lives in this world or the next.

Answer 8

your clothes can gert stained with mud
you can get so much mud that obscures god completly
doesnt mean the clothes are gone just unseen
the sign of god is life
where life is there is god
we are finding life every where
the words reveal life even in word,
god is omnipresent ,unseen inside all and yet outside all.
see john 14;17

Answer 9

The concept of hell is unfathomable, so i cant answer that. I will add this though..if "no man is worthy of heaven" and "god is all merciful" uh where does that leave us? 8.

Answer 10

Dear Socratic Pig, you have your defenitions completely wrong. Evil isnt he abscence of God, it is rather the defiance of God and His standard of morality, His Law (Ten Commandments). it is written in first 1 John "sin is transgression of the law." now about hell, is God present in hell, yes, it is totaly apropriate to say this, because we have God desribing Hell to us in luke with the story of the rich man and Lazerus, we have him describing of the Lke of fire in revelations at the great white throne Judgement, and of all, we also Know that God is the one who put Hell where it is, he is the one who created it. Now, That is not to say God is in hell as In "Physically present", rather he has power to view hell and be thier as he pleases, since he is the creator of this palce. it should be noted, that he is not there in the form, as to give confort to its inhabitants.
God Bless