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Omnipresence means being everywhere all at once. It may include being not only in in all of space, but in all of time. The most meaningful kind of omnipresence includes being present in all of space and at all times.
Omnipresence means being everywhere all at once. It is contrasted most naturally with local presence, though many people think it also contrasts with [[transcendence]].
There are only two kinds of things that can be omnipresent, but each in a different way: everything other than God, and God Himself alone.
In the sense of a mere logical construct, omnipresence may include being in either or both of all-of-space or all-of-time. The most meaningful kind of omnipresence includes both.
There may seem, at least at first, to be exactly two kinds of things that can be omnipresent, and each in a different way: everything-other-than-God, and God-Himself-alone. The totality of everything-other-than-God may seem, by definition, to be "omnipresent as itself". But, unless some kind of physical thing, whether a kind of matter or a physical 'law', is arbitrarily selected as omnipresent in that totality, then no particular kind of physical thing can be defined as omnipresent. And, if no particular kind of physical thing can be defined as omnipresent, then the totality of everything-other-than-God cannot be defined as being coherent-in-itself.
God is everywhere within His Creation, but God also transcends, or is beyond, His Creation.
God is everywhere within His Creation, but God also transcends, or is beyond, His Creation.