12/19/2006

Omnipotent Omniscient Omnipresent

Dr Roark wrote

Yes, you do seem nearer to Plato than Heraclitus, and, I suspect, nearer Plato than to the scriptures. Nearer to the Platonic stream of theologians who have been among the major shapers of our Christian thinking. In the process, I am convinced that many of them have not been good witnesses; rather, they have been mis-representatives of God. And too many of us have inherited their influence, although we were completely unaware of it.
We all know that the New Testament was written in Greek, but Plato and Aristotle also wrote Greek. Many learned Christians read and listened to both. Study the history of the first four or five centuries of the history of Christian thinking.
Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent? This is traditional rather than biblical language, language to which I will offer some challenges when the time seems right.
Let's keep the conversation going, now that I have learned how to respond.
The Bible doesn’t say, “God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
so I developed this scriptural and philosophic basis in response
aliquid quod maius non cogitari potest--St. Anselm circa 1050 AD that than the which nothing greater can be imagined

Term: Omnipotent
Definition: All powerful; all mighty.
Example: And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God OMNIPOTENT reigneth. (Revelation 19:6)

Jhn 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Jhn 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

omnipresence (De 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider [it] in thine heart, that the LORD he [is] God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: [there is] none else.
De 10:14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [is] the LORD'S thy God, the earth [also], with all that therein [is].
everywhere even small or deft and delicate of hand
Ps 139:6-16 [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I%2

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I would posit that we use terms not found in scripture other than by description on numerous occasions, for brevity's sake, and while it may be that this propensity opens us to errors of assumption, I am sure with due dilgence in reading and earnest humble spirit and God's consent, then we might ascertain the intent of God's revelation unto us. As Anselm put in the ninth century, 'aliquid quod maius non cogitari potest'-'something greater than which cannot be thought'! But a pipe which seems straight to me now, yet by my passing through it I realize it has a turn does not convince me that the pipe was not always designed to engulf me wherever I may go, and moreover it is most lilkely that I have found a place of pipe configuration that I had not previously observed, me being nearsighted and all. The pipe is still the pipe and as it probaby always was,(or is it the underside of an elephant, me a bangladeshi fixing to shower, it being no engulfing pipe at all, but rather a protruberance?
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