If your father has a place of abode will you be right to say God is everywhere(omnipresent?)?

Question

I have in mind the concept of omnipresence. God is our Father and as a Father He must have a residence just like our earthly fathers who have a roof over their heads.Your cannot go everywhere looking for your father just to prove that he is powerful.
This is to prove that the concept of omnipresence is wrong.

Answer 1

Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Answer 2

why must he have a place of residence? because the labels of this earth say so? I think not . You cannot disprove God it just isn't possible. My God (and father) listens to me when I talk to him, I feel his presence with me. Often people get a feeling something is wrong when a loved one is in trouble, how can this happen without the aid of another being. Surely humans can only notice what is around them without God. I cannot prove that my God is omnipresent being to do so I would have to understand God ... and to understand God ... well you'd have to be God wouldn't you ... but neither can you disprove it because humans do not know everything about the universe and we never will.

Answer 3

You are correct.

As a personage, God cannot be everywhere, he can only be in one place at a time. Neither can the Son or the Holy Spirit, also separate persons, be everywhere at once, but....

“The Holy Ghost as a personage of Spirit can no more be omnipresent in person than can the Father or the Son, but by his intelligence, his knowledge, his power and influence, over and through the laws of nature, he is and can be omnipresent throughout all the works of God”

Answer 4

Your logic is faulty.

God is our father
We have earthly fathers
Earthly fathers have residences
(God is just like Earthly Fathers)
Therefore God MUST have a residence and cannot be omnipresent.


It is NOT the case that God is just like Earthly fathers, so your conclusion doesn't follow from the premise.

God is not a created being. God created humans. Humans are not God. God the Father is a spirit, (so is God the Holy Spirit) and doesn't need a house. The only manifestation of God in the flesh is Jesus Christ, and He was homeless while He was with us.
The properties of Heaven, which believers as well as God call Home, may not BE the same as Earth.

Answer 5

To my understanding, God is omnipresent through the Holy Spirit.
I believe in an anthropomorphic God, as the Bible clearly teaches, who would definitely abide in some specific place, as you are suggesting.
I also believe, however, that the influence of the Spirit of the Lord (which is not the person of God the Father) can reach throughout the vastness of space so that God's presence can be in all places and he can have knowledge of what goes on in all places at all times. It is through his Spirit that God can dwell in the hearts of Man, although the person of God could not literally dwell in us.

Answer 6

You have proved absolutely nothing. Correct me if I am wrong - you are saying God cannot be omnipresent because he lives in a house?

Answer 7

Jesus became the actual manifestation of God. He became a guy yet he had the spirit of God abiding in him so strongly that the sunshine of God shone with the aid of him. There are 3 areas to God. the father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. they are all the genuine and residing God. the single God. They weren't performing on separate procedures. Jesus did purely the want of the father. He acted on the way of God. Christians recommend that they do no longer seem to be the comparable by making use of exact potential. they are the comparable in non secular potential because of fact Jesus has the spirit of God in Him.

Answer 8

God isnt omnipresent

Answer 9

When something is termed everywhere it can be said to be nowhere for what is an everywhere surrounded by?

Answer 10

God not not only resides in his own planet in the Spiritual world by His omnipresence but also in every atom. He expands Himself by His omnipotency.

Madhya 5.97 The Activities of Saksi-gopala
As such, the Deity can act exactly as the Lord did in His original form as Krsna. Lord Krsna was talking to the young brahmana just to test his knowledge about the arca-vigraha. In other words, those who have understood the science of Krsna--Krsna's name, form, quality and so forth--can also talk with the Deity. To an ordinary person, however, the Deity will appear to be made of stone, wood or some other material. In the higher sense, since all material elements ultimately emanate from the supreme spiritual entity, nothing is really material. Being omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, Krsna can deal with His devotees in any form without difficulty. By the mercy of the Lord, the devotee knows perfectly well about the Lord's dealings. Indeed, he can talk face to face with the Lord.

731007BG.BOM Lectures
Therefore He is called omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. These are the adjectives given to God. Omnipresent. He is present everywhere. That's a fact. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese arjuna tisthati. He's sitting within your heart, He's seeing everything, what you are acting. Isvarah sarva... Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca. This is knowledge. This is knowledge. Not that to make Krsna formless, "He does not eat. He does not speak. He does not walk. He has no hand. He has no head." That is not knowledge. That is ignorance, foolishness. Mudha. Avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam, param bhavam ajanantah. Because He does not know the param bhavam. This is param bhavam. Krsna has form, but a form not like us. That is param bhavam. He is present everywhere.
He can accept anything, wherever you offer. That Krsna says, tad aham bhakty-upahrtam asnami. Krsna says, "I take." Who are you to say that Krsna does not accept? Krsna accepts, provided it is given with devotion. That is wanted. Tad aham bhakty-upahrtam. Anyone brings something to offer Krsna with bhakti, Krsna is not hungry but He accepts... (break)

SB 4.29.48 P Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi
Generally people are not aware of their interest in life--to return home, back to Godhead. People do not know about their real home in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world there are many Vaikuntha planets, and the topmost planet is Krsnaloka, Goloka Vrndavana. Despite the so-called advancement of civilization, there is no information of the Vaikunthalokas, the spiritual planets. At the present moment so-called advanced civilized men are trying to go to other planets, but they do not know that even if they go to the highest planetary system, Brahmaloka, they have to come back again to this planet. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (8.16):

abrahma-bhuvanal lokah
punar avartino 'rjuna
mam upetya tu kaunteya
punar janma na vidyate


"From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again."

If one goes to the highest planetary system within this universe he still has to return after the effects of pious activities are finished. Space vehicles may go very high in the sky, but as soon as their fuel is finished, they have to return to this earthly planet. All these activities are performed in illusion. The real attempt should now be to return home, back to Godhead. The process is mentioned in Bhagavad-gita. Yanti mad-yajino 'pi mam: those who engage in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead return home, back to Godhead. Human life is very valuable, and one should not waste it in vain exploration of other planets. One should be intelligent enough to return to Godhead. One should be interested in information about the spiritual Vaikuntha planets, and in particular the planet known as Goloka Vrndavana, and should learn the art of going there by the simple method of devotional service, beginning with hearing (sravanam kirtanam visnoh). This is also confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam (12.3.51):


kaler dosa-nidhe rajann
asti hy eko mahan gunah
kirtanad eva krsnasya
mukta-sangah param vrajet


One can go to the supreme planet (param vrajet) simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra. This is especially meant for the people of this age (kaler dosa-nidhe). It is the special advantage of this age that simply by chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra one can become purified of all material contamination and return home, back to Godhead. There is no doubt about this.


We request you to chant HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA, KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE, HARE RAMA HARE RAMA, RAMA RAMA HARE HARE, and your life will be sublime.

Answer 11

yes He can be 3 places at once if He wants!