The Aspectence Of God's Omnipresence In The Bible

Boethius concluded from his characterization of an eternal god that God is like a bird flying over a man walking down the path, the bird can see where the man has been, where he is and where he is about to go all at once. This is a power that God is able to use due to him being outside of time, he can see everyone’s past present and future simultaneously. His knowledge is total however not causal.

One of the most offensive beliefs of the Christian belief today is the idea of hell. Why is this such an area of disbelief and repulsion? In short, people are not willing to face the consequences of their actions or decisions so they despise the idea of the eternal consequence, which is hell. This leads people to then claim that a loving God would not send people to hell, since a loving God and hell are definitely in contradiction. If observed, however, a loving God is not in contradiction with the existence of hell at all.

In the Bible, we understand hell as eternal separation from God and eternal torment. The normal American philosophy of hell means physical pain and suffering with unquenchable thirst; nonetheless, this theory may not stand as the truth.

God doesn’t have to receive existence as he is already an existence in those who love and know Him. This is the primary truth about God. He is, he exists and he is real. He has the power to make existence in my life as long as I love and know Him.

“In the God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) God existed before all of His creation, therefore He is the sovereign creator. He created all to be good in His perfect wisdom. Though God is invisible, He has several distinct characteristics; compassionate, faithful, infinite, just, wise and all-powerful.

God is the sovereign Creator of our world. He has many characteristics and attributes; He is loving, just, holy, faithful, unchanging, and all-powerful. Romans 1:20 reads, “For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly

Namely, hell is a place where the inhabitants suffer inconceivable torment for all eternity. The Bible plainly argues this, and to believe that the Bible does otherwise will require improper hermeneutics. One of the prime examples that reveal the severity of hell is Calvary: Jesus died a severe death to save humanity from a severe torment. Additionally, a loving God does not reject the idea of hell since He is just in punishing the infinite crime of

“No one has ever seen God. The only son, who is truly God and is closest to the Father, has shown us what God is like” (John 1:18) (International Bible Society, 1984).

Some would argue that our conception of Hell as dictated by religions and as Dante depicts it, where an everlasting fire burns and sinners are burnt infinitely, is simply non-existent, for it is naïve to still think such a possibility viable, when it was only a way to let fear discourage the ignorant man against evil. Other’s would argue that God does not send sinners to Hell, but they choose it themselves, based on free-will and the actions the path of life they have followed on Earth. God, they claim, has laid down the ways for humanity’s salvation, has given them the ability to choose between right and wrong, and yet they chose foully. It is certainly a variation in discourse, and not actually a justification for the existence of such a place in the first place, yet many choose this kind of argument, based simply on an alteration in the blame-game. In Dante, we can see how the question is implicitly answered, by suggesting that God indeed is not vindictive, his punishments not in vain. It is poor choice, whether based on incontinence, violence or malice, that has brought those people to Hell and not God per se. Based on the law of Contrapasso we come to understanding the working of this divine judicial system. This law, which is the equivalent of an infernal version of Newton’s third law, where for every sin, an equal and opposite punishment is issued, dictates how

"For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that

God is infinite, everlasting, and never-changing. God set the laws of the land therefore I must abide by what is determined by God as right and wrong. God has revealed this truth through his creation and revelation. God is absolute.

Continuing off this idea of God being the greatest idea that can be thought, and how the thought of God is in everybody 's mind, Anselm mentions “ If that- than-which- a-greater-cannot -be-thought exists in the mind alone, this is the same than that- which- a- greater- can- be- thought is than that-which-a-greater-can-be-thought. Therefore there is absolutely no doubt that- than-which- a-greater-cannot -be-thought exists in both the mind and reality” (Anselm 88). This proof that is given to us by Anselm is helping to show that God is something that is an idea in everybody 's mind, but existing only in the mind is not enough. As said before Anselm states that no one can think of anything greater than God, but if God was something that was only an idea in people 's’ heads then there would be ways for people to think of things greater than God. Though if God existed outside of someone 's mind, in reality, then it would be impossible for anyone to think of anything bigger than God and because God is something in which nothing greater can be thought, he must exist in both the mind and reality.

Since the dawn of human consciousness our species has labored with the thought of something bigger than us, someone like the best part of us, something divine. Whether an individual believes in or doesn’t believe in a higher power, there is no question that a lot has been done both in and for that higher powers name. Wars have been fought, commitments have been made, and borders have been pushed in the name of god. People have come together and been torn apart because of their belief in a higher power. Through the use of fiction, poetry, and prose, we have used literature to define, explain, and argue the nature of god.

In both the old times and modern time of Christianity, one of the main controversial topics has surrounded one single word. Hell. Some people hear it and thing noting of it. Others shutter at the name. But everyone has questions about it, whether hell is real or a fable, eternal or temporary, physical or spiritual. Being in the Baptist community since birth, I have believed in a hell since I can remember because “to believe in God and not in hell is ultimately to disbelieve in the reality of human choices.” (Ross Douthat). My definition of hell comes straight from the Bible. That there will be “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Mathew 13:42) and that God will say, “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil

Omnipresence is a trait typically ascribed to God. It is defined as being present everywhere simultaneously. However, one aspect of this definition that is not as widely agreed upon as the rest of it is the idea of presence. What is it that philosophers’ mean when they refer to the presence of god.