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For Scripture Reading
Omnipresent is an attribute of God usually thought of God being everywhere which is a Pantheistic understanding. It teaches that God is the sum of all thinking and extended sustance or that He exists in everything that exists. God's Omnipresence is better understood to mean He is anywhere rather than everywhere. He is not in physical things. He is a personal being and exists objective of physical things which He made. God is anywhere He needs to be or anywhere we need His help. General references
Theology ascribes this attribute of God as a state of being all-powerful. Scripture often affirms that all power belongs to God as in
Ps 147:5,
that all things are possible for God in
Luke 1:37,
Luke 19:26,
and that God’s power exceeds what humans can ask or think as seen in
Eph 3:20.
For Scripture, God’s omnipotence is not a matter of abstract speculation but a force to be reckoned with. God’s power is revealed in God’s creating and sustaining the universe.
We can see this in
Ps 65:6,
Jer 32:17,
Heb 1:3;
in God’s deliverance of Israel from Pharaoh’s forces
Ex 15:1-18,
in the conquest of Canaan
Deut 3:21-24,
in the incarnation
Luke 1:35,
in Christ’s death on the cross
1 Cor 1:17-18,
and
23-24,
and in the ongoing ministry of the church
General references
Theology ascribes omniscience to God as the state of being all-knowing. Though Scripture affirms God’s immeasurable understanding Psa 147:5, God’s omniscience is not a matter of abstract speculation. Rather, God’s knowing is a matter of personal experience.
God knows us intimately
Psa 139:6,
Matt 6:4, 6,and
8.
Such knowledge is cause for alarm for the unrighteous but cause for confidence for God’s saints
Job 23:10,
Psa 34:15-16,
Psa 90:8,
Prov 15:3,
1 Pet 3:12.
God’s wisdom is His perfect awareness of what is happening in all of His creation in any given moment. This includes His knowledge of the final outcome of His creation and of how He will work from beginning to ending of human history
Job 11:4-12,
Job 28:1-28
Psa 139:1-24,
Romans 11.
It also includes His ability to know what is best for each and every one of His creatures. Sometimes perfection can be a synonym of omniscience.
Mankind asks, "how can a perfect God let things get as bad as they are?" God is perfect in all His ways. It was not God's plan for things to be the way they are. The only thing God did wrong in our eyes is giving us free will to choose between "good" and "evil", "obedience" and "disobedience". We could be puppets and be controlled to love and obey Him, but He loved us so much that He gave us a perfect life; which we spoiled, he gave us free will to choose; and we make the wrong choices, and He gave us eternal life; but we can't even make the right choice for that. He is a perfect God and He has made everything perfect except we had rather live in darkness and ruin. God is God, there is no other god like unto Him, He is perfect with a perfect love for mankind. "Praise God"
General references
God’s unique nature is simply that God is the only God. He is not simply the greatest of many gods He is the only true God. God is the living God. This separates Him from all other gods and idols, which are merely forms humans have created in the image of things God created.
Isa 41:22-24,
Isa 44:9-20,
Isa 46:1-2, and
Isa 46:6-7;.
The Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king
Jer 10:10;
compare
1 Thess 1:9;.
Christians see this in Jesus, joining Peter in confessing, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God
Matt 16:16;.
The living God is also Lord and Master. In English translations He is Lord in two ways. Lord spelled with small caps represents the Hebrew Yahweh, the personal name of God, by which He introduced Himself to Moses
Ex 3:15;
Ex 6:3;. See Names of God; Yahweh. Lord with lowercase letters represents the Hebrew 'adonai and the Greek kurios. See Lord. This refers to the master, the boss, the owner, the person with authority over another. As Lord, God is sovereign Ruler over all the earth; He is the Creator and Judge of all persons. Thus the Hebrew identifies God as the Lord God (Yahweh), the God of Israel Ex 34:23;.
He is Lord of lords
Deut 10:17;.
The New Testament proclaims, let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ
Acts 2:36.
Thus Jesus receives the same titles as the Father, leading to a doctrine of the Trinity.
Romans 12:2;
The most essential condition of a moral nature is found in His vivid personality, which at every stage of His self-revelation shines forth with an intensity that might be called aggressive. Divine personality and spirituality are never expressly asserted or defined in the Old Testament; but nowhere in the history of religion are they more clearly asserted. The modes of their expression are, however, qualified by anthropomorphisms, by limitations, moral and physical. Yahweh’s jealousy
(Ex 20:5;
Deut 5:9;
Deut 6:15),
His wrath and anger,
(Ex 32:10-12;
Deut 7:4)
and His inviolable holiness
(Ex 19:21, 22;
1 Sam 6:19;
2 Sam 6:7)
appear sometimes to be irrational and immoral; but they are the assertion of His individual nature, of His self-consciousness as He distinguishes Himself from all else, in the moral language of the time, and are the conditions of His having any moral nature whatsoever. Likewise, He dwells in a place and moves from it
(Judges 5:5);
men may see Him in visible form
(Ex 24:10;
Num 12:8);
He is always represented as having organs like those of the human body, arms, hands, feet, mouth, eyes and ears. By such sensuous and figurative language alone was it possible for a personal God to make Himself known to men.
Ex 20:5;
Ex 20:7 ;
Ex 34:14;
Deut 5:9 ;
Deut 5:11;
Deut 6:15;
Deut 4:24;
Deut 29:20;
Deut 32:16;
Deut 32:21;
Josh 24:19;
2 Chr 16:7-10;
Isa 30:1-2;
Isa 31:1;
Isa 31:3;
Ezek 23:25;
Ezek 36:5;
Ezek 39:25;
Joel 2:18;
Nahum 1:2;
Zech 1:14;
1 Cor 10:22;
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