How can something be omnipresent and untestable? Isn't that an oxymoron?

Answer 1

Nope, that's not an oxymoron ... an oxymoron would be "government intelligence" lol

Answer 2

If omnipresence means being physically present everywhere, then it would be an oxymoron.

The Christian tradition, on the other hand, has claimed God to be omnipresent only in an analogical and non-physical sense. Thomas Aquinas gives the pretty standard and traditional understanding of it when he says:
'that “an incorporeal thing is related to its presence in something by its power, in the same way that a corporeal thing is related to its presence in something by dimensive quantity,” and he added that “if there were any body possessed of infinite dimensive quantity, it would have to be everywhere. So if there were an incorporeal being possessed of infinite power, it must be everywhere” (SCG III, 68, 3). So the first aspect of God's presence in things is by having power over them. The second aspect is by every thing being present to him, being “bare and open to his eyes” or being known to him. The third feature, that God is present to things by his essence is glossed as his being the cause of their being.' (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Omnipresence")

We can say God is "present" only in a way that is analogous to the ways in which other beings are present. Since our ordinary language does not intend to express transcendent Beings, when we speak of such beings we have to do so in a way which stretches our language in some way.

So, the answer to your question is that omnipresence and untestability are only incompatible if we understand omnipresence in a certain way which the Christian tradition has tended to avoid. I would imagine that other non-Christian theories of it might be similar (for instance, a neo-Platonist might want to say that the Good is omnipresent, but she would definitely not mean that the Good is physically present everywhere).

Of course, all that goes to show that the two ideas are not conceptually incompatible. It doesn't mean that such a combination actually exists anywhere out there in the world.

Answer 3

What can you test outside of our dimension?

Answer 4

Test this.. You don't know me, but I am thinking about your question.. can you test that?

Answer 5

God is far above are man-made testing methods.

Answer 6

Short answer - yes, long answer - yes

Answer 7

Cut off your oxygen moron , then you will know.

Answer 8

That is why it is called a faith !!!