Have you ever heard of the prefix “Omni”? Have you heard it in the bible? The prefix “Omni” means “all” or “everything”. Throughout the bible, there are many examples of this prefix being linked with various suffixes. Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent are the 3 main “Omnis” in the bible. As you will see, God is all of these. Firstly, Omniscient is described in dictionary.com as, “having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding”. This means that one is all-knowing; always aware of anything going on. This describes God very well. A great example of this in the bible comes from Psalm 139:1-3. In this verse, David is praying to the LORD, and recognizing that he knows everything about him. God knows each and every one of us, therefore he loves us and can always take care of us. Omniscient describes God because he is all-knowing. …show more content…
Dictionary.com describes Omnipresent as, “present everywhere at the same time”, meaning that one is all-around. God is indeed always everywhere! In Jeremiah 23:23-24, the LORD declares he fills heaven and earth. As Christians, we can believe this is true because the bible says it. God has sent his holy spirit so he is always with us, then when Jesus comes back again, we will be with him forever in heaven. Therefore, God is all-around at all times. Finally, the last “Omni” word is Omnipotent. This one is different than the other ones. Omnipotent to me is the most important one of all. Dictionary.com calls Omnipotent, “almighty or infinite in power, as God”. God created the universe, he created us, and he takes care of us. Not only does God know us all and is everywhere, but he is the one TRUE God. He is higher than any president or dictator, and should be treated like that. The bible says in Job 37:23 that the LORD is all powerful, is all righteous, and makes no mistakes. We can trust God as being all-powerful that he would take care of
Anselm explains this through the concept that if God was involved in human life and affairs then this would take away his all-powerfulness and omnipotence because his true power comes from the possibility of doing anything and making a decision goes against this. The true power that God has makes him unable to interfere in human affairs as the amount of other decisions and choices that are influenced by this one action takes power from him. Anselm shows this through the analogy that if a man is sitting we talk of him as he is doing the action, but for talking of God, it would be easier to think of it as he isn’t doing any other action other than sitting (Anselm 73). Anselm’s thought that having the power to do something rather than actually doing an action is greater and this leads to him re-establishing the thought of God’s omnipotence through this. As Anselm says, because of God’s ability to do an action that is always to his benefit and because he can not be impotent against anything, this reaffirms his all-powerfulness. God doing an impotent action is self-contradictory because he is the maximum and all-knowing, so he will never do this because it would take power away from Him and make him have the desire to do what is unacceptable of God, which is an action that goes against God himself. Anselm describes this power that is taken away from God if he does a impotent action as “adversity and perversity”, which just means anything that goes against God or is self-harming to Him (Anselm 74). His inaction is true omnipotence because he can, “do nothing through impotence and nothing can have power against You.”(Anselm 74) God’s inaction is one of the main reasons why he is omnipotent according to Anselm, and if he influences human life or anything then he is taking away alternate possibilities which make him less
They have been called "gods." These almighty, powerful beings that are far too superior for us to understand; or so most of us have been made to believe. Some may say he is a Great Examiner, others could say he is the Creator. Some could even say he doesn't exist. Frankly, what I want to emphasize is how such beliefs could reduce even the bravest and strongest of us all to a whimpering child. Something that we ar...
Even without God reaching out specifically for us, nature and the world around us can prove to show man God’s ultimate power and authority. God created humans as the superior being on earth, therefore we have the ability to critically
The. His existence is seen as simply another property of his being. Just like omnipotence and omnipresent are the properties of the. One example that has been used to explain this is a triangle. The sand is a triangle.
There are three claims that the majority people are committed to and agree upon if God exists; God is omnipotent, God is omniscient, and God is perfectly
In order to understand God’s omniscience, we must distinguish the important difference between human foreknowledge and divine foreknowledge, which the former is the contingent true, and the latter is the necessary true. Human beliefs are contingent true, because it could happen to be true and it could also have been false. Divine beliefs are necessary truth, by denying it, it will create a contradiction. Therefore, as logic dictates, my first proposition is if one believes in God, then no human action will be voluntary. However, noted that God is all-knowing, but it doesn’t mean God is all-controlling. For the sake of argument in a metaphysical sense, what if there were more than just one rea...
God is like a father and we, humanity are his children. He teaches us, prepares us, disciplines us, and punishes us for not obeying and following His commands. The attributes of God that belong distinctly to him are that
A wonderful description of the nature of God’s existence that includes the absolute possession of characteristics that have to be uniquely God was said, “First, God must exist necessarily, which means that God’s existence differs from ours by not being dependent on anything or anyone else, or such as to be taken from him or lost in any way. God has always existed, will always exist and could not do otherwise than to exist. Also, whatever attributes God possesses, he possesses necessarily” (Wood, J., 2010, p. 191).
God is the great I am. He is holy and the creator of all things. He provided the ten commandments (Exodus 20) with the first one that started out as “I am the Lord your God” (Iozzio, 2006). He created mankind and
Throughout life we question whether God is immanent or transcendent. Immanent theology believes that God is in everything on earth. Immanence is similar to being omnipresence in that God is present in everything at the same time. As human beings we believe that God is always around but still look up to God as being the superior one. Transcendent theology believes that God is above the earth and that God is separate from and independent of nature and humanity. God is not attached or involved in his creation. As humans living on earth we do not know who God is because God lives outside space and time. There are various arguments and examples to support immanent and transcendent theology through theologians that makes you contemplate if God is immanent or transcendent. Thomas Berry and Rudolf Bultmann are two specific examples of immanent and transcendent theologians.
He is full in both presences of human and God or spiritual way. God can be seen in both ways this proves what the Gnostics said is false (Robinson). For all these beliefs of Gnostics there had to be roots of Gnosticism. These roots came from some time in the second centuries CE.
The concept of God can be a difficult one to grasp especially in today's world - a world in which anyone that believes in God is trying to define exactly what God is. To even attempt to grasp such a concept, one must first recognize his own beliefs in respect to the following questions: Is God our creator? Is God omnipotent (all-powerful) or omniscient (all-knowing) or both? Does God care? Is God with us? Does God interfere with life on earth? These questions should be asked and carefully answered if one should truly wish to identify his specific beliefs in God's existence and persistence.
In works based on the Christian religion God is often portrayed as all-knowing and all-powerful. This is how God is portrayed
However, if we picture God as something that could be everywhere, surrounding us like air or awareness, then, understanding if and what God is - all of a sudden - becomes a possibility. I am sure you can agree: if there is a God, then God has to exist and has to be aware of His Existence (can you even picture an unconscious God). Also, He must exist on his own, which means God must be self-energetic. That is the safest thing we can say without too much speculation. And, in fact, that is precisely what God is: God is self-energetic awareness.
The concept of omnipotence seems to reign prominent among most religions, specifically among their myths articulating the origin and the inevitable destruction of our universe. Omnipotence, meaning all-powerful/perfect and predictably all good, produces many contradictions and questions merely by definition. The prospect of a life form being omnipotent is impossible. For the omnipotent being would inexorably be the creator and destroyer of all things; however, a perfect (omnipotent) being needs not to create anything else, for it is perfectly harmonious in its state, let alone creating an imperfect universe necessary for destruction.