In the historical books, although there is no abstract formula, and occasional anthropomorphic references to God'staking knowledge of things occur ( Genesis 11:5 18:21 Deuteronomy 8:3), none the less the principle is everywhere presupposed in what is related about God's cognizance of the doings of man, about the hearing of prayer, the disclosing of the future ( 1 Samuel 16:7 23:9-12 1 Kings 8:39 2 Chronicles 16:9).
Scripture everywhere teaches the absolute universality of the divine knowledge. Tacit Assumption and Explicit Affirmation:
In the New Testament are found ginoskein, gnosis, eidenai, sophia, in the same connections.Ģ. In the Old Testament it is expressed in connection with such words as da'ath, binah, tebhunah, chokhmah also "seeing" and "hearing," "the eye" and "the ear" occur as figures for the knowledge of God, as "arm," "hand," "finger" serve to express His power. The term does not occur in Scripture, either in its nominal or in its adjectival form. V.Encyclopedias - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Omniscience No wonder therefore, since glory itself is able thus to stretch a man to a kind of omnipresence, if the desire of glory has over his life and actions a kind of omnipotence. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 from texts which declare Brahman to be all-pervading, is also known from texts such as 'higher than that there is nothing.' by Brahman, and which is known 'from declarations of extent,' and so on, i.e. That omnipresence which is possessed 'by that,' i.e.
She certainly possesses the social talent more than any one I ever met with, and, without the least apparent effort, seems to have a kind of omnipresence in her salons, so that each one of her guests receives a due share of attention. Moreover, while his mother was only a human, personal spirit, there was a kind of omnipresence in her so far as he was concerned, and he loved her and she loved him everywhere, though he never had seen her and never could.īut even if we concede all that the scientist claims for his conception of God if we grant that terms like " omnipresence" and "omniscience" and "progress" clothe themselves with new force in the Copernican and Newtonian and That the sky was a bowl, a kind of omnipresence holding us, and then there was the notion that the earth was the bowl and we were in the sky, looking down at it. But still more by the mechanical system of philosophy which has needlessly infected our theological opinions, and teaching us to consider the world in its relation to god, as of a building to its mason, leaves the idea of omnipresence a mere abstract notion in the stateroom of our reason. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church The "ubiquity," as the _Exegesis_ terms the omnipresence of Christ's human nature, is condemned as Eutychian heresy. Let us look up the word omnipresence and read some of the passages in which it occurs.