God's Attributes
Omnipresence
Psalm 139:7-12
7 Where can I go to escape your spirit? Where can
I flee to escape your presence? 8 If I were to ascend to heaven, you would
be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be. 9 If I
were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other
side of the sea, 10 even there your hand would guide me, your right hand
would grab hold of me. 11 If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will
cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,” 12 even the
darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as
day; darkness and light are the same to you.
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God is All-present, that is, at all times He is in all places.
The English word omnipresence comes from the Latin word omnis, meaning “all.” Thus, omnipresence means God is everywhere present, but not in everything (pantheism). He is present everywhere at the same time.
Jeremiah 23:23-24
23 Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the Lord asks. 24 “Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the Lord asks. “Don’t you know that I am everywhere?” the Lord asks. NETActs 17:24-28
24 The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone. 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, 27 so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28 For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ NET
Along with this are also God's being immanent and transcendent. See the doctrine list page for information. Not only is God everywhere, as we shall see, He is also never far away, for He is in everything.
