| | 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. | | 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, at least at first, seem 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 no particular kind of physical thing can be defined as transcendent, and hence, the totality of everything-other-than-God cannot be defined as coherent-in-itself. | + | There may, at least at first, seem 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 no particular kind of physical thing can be defined as transcendent, and hence, the totality of everything-other-than-God cannot be defined as coherent-in-itself. And, finally, if the totality of everything-other-than-God cannot be defined as coherent-in-itself, then the totality of everything-other-than-God is an ‘omnipresence of incoherence’. So, unless some kind of physical thing is transcendently omnipresent, then the only option in favor of an ultimate coherence is a transcendent God who, by His very transcendence, is omnipresent. |
| | 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. |