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Where is god?

Where is god?


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Learning just like you.

Although you seem to be asking religious questions in a tongue-in-cheek manner, I will take the opportunity to provide a serious answer (sorry bout that, it's my nature ;).  However, I would also like to answer, from a Christian perspective, where God is NOT.

1. God is Everywhere (Omnipresent)

The most obvious answer is that God, who is an invisible spirit, does not actually exist in one place, but in all places.  As the Apostle Paul wrote:

Ephesians 4:6
There is...one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. 

2. But wasn't God in the Ark of the Covenant, and the Jewish Temple?

Well, not exactly.  In the Old Testament, it was actually God's *presence* that showed up in those places, according to Jewish Scripture.  But it's not like God was trapped in there, living there like a genie in a bottle.   

3. God's power and divine attributes may be seen in nature, but they are NOT God.

One of the unique differences between Christianity and many eastern religions, including Hinduism, is that Christianity is not pantheistic.  Pantheism, teaches that God is present in the creation, and that all of creation put together equals God. 

However, Christianity teaches that God is transcendent, meaning separate from and above the creation, and that God is the creator.   So that in the same way we could appreciate the genius of a painter in his painting, we can see the genius of God in the creation.  However, we would never say that a painter's painting is actually the painter himself.  Christianity would say that worshiping the creation as God rather than seeing it as the creation of God is a mistake.

Romans 1:19-25
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.  For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made....

Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles ....Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever!

4.  God is NOT in the hearts of those who have not received Christ.

Many are surprised to find out that God is not in the hearts of those who do not believe, biblically speaking.  There are a few reasons for this confusion.

a.  Many believe in the "Universal sonship" of all humans

While all people are created by God, and so in a sense, can call God their "Father", this does not mean that they are safe from perdition based on this fact.  A sinner may be loved by God as a Father loves a child, but that won't save them. 

b. Many confuse the "image of God" in them with God himself

While the scriptures teach that we are made in the "image of God", this, again, is more like a copy, or a creation of the creator, and not the creator Himself (see point 3 above).   Some, like the Quakers, may describe this God-likeness as the "inner light", but this "inner divinity" is still, biblically speaking, NOT God himself.

c. Even the Disciples of Jesus did not have God's spirit in them initially

After Jesus' resurrection, and before he ascended, he discussed with his disciples how after He left, the Holy Spirit (God's Spirit) would be sent to them.  Notice the prepositions below

John 14:16-17
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

d. God's spirit only enters upon personal invitation

To become a "child of God," scriptures teach that He must be willingly received.  Before that, we can not really say that God is living in us.  This is where the terms "born again" and "born of the spirit" come from.

John 1:12-13
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. 

John 3:4-7
Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

Of course, an even tougher question is, where is Jesus?

Posted 2006-08-08T17:22:06Z
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Happiness is whereever you let it be!

In the details ... I guess

Posted 2006-05-22T23:42:24Z
 

blah blah woof woof

right here...

anything i can do for you?

Posted 2006-06-23T07:51:12Z
 
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Rejected slogan #235:

Yedda - a brain the size of a planet.
 
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Bored with knowledge? Try golf

Ask Mrs God, he left house two months ago because of the kids exesperating him. Rumours said he was found drunck in Harlem. Others say he is playing golfin Florida. Anyway, why do you ask?

Posted 2006-06-30T09:11:50Z
 
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That depends who or what 'god' is (i.e., the question is not well-defined).

 

Posted 2006-08-16T12:51:09Z
 
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Cogito ergo sum. René Descartes

Depends on your point of view.

For me, god is everywhere and everything, means I believe in a sort of pantheism. 

Posted 2006-12-01T18:10:39Z
 
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we are in god.

לדוגמה: 'עברות שבין אדם למקום', למה נקרא מקום? משום שהוא מקומו של עולם ואין העולם מקומו

Posted 2006-12-17T09:09:28Z
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maybe panentheism

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