Omnipresence

Omnipresence means being everywhere all at once. It is contrasted most naturally with local presence, though many people think it also contrasts with transcendence.

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. 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.

Balancing Omnipresence and Transcendence

On the face of it, there seems to be a problem of balancing God's omnipresence with God's transcendence. There seems to be an effort needed to keep from being forced to one side or the other: to Deism, or, to Pantheism.

Deism is the view that God's transcendence prevents Him from interacting fully with His Creation. Pantheism, in its purest form, is the view that God's omnipresence prevents Him from actually being the Creator, such that the Creation is God, and that otherwise there is no God.

So, God must be transcendent and omnipresent in order to be God. But, then, is God more transcendent that He is omnipresent? But, if we assume that God's transcendence and omnipresence are equally 'weighted', then, by what logical mechanisms can we see them as equally 'weighted'?

The belief of Pantheism may be the result of admitting the natural sense that God is omnipresent while rejecting, or else failing take into account, the sense that God is transcendent. Deism may be the result of believing in the transcendence of God while failing to see how God can actually be present in His Creation without being His Creation.

In any case, there is a dualistic view of God's omnipresence and God's transcendence. This is the view that God's omnipresence is different from God's transcendence. So, there is, then, a need to balance them.

But, there may be at least one way to resolve the seeming conflict between God's omnipresence and God's transcendence: by allowing that the classical geometric point may actually exist.

The classical geometric point is any point in space which cannot be divided into smaller spaces. This means that this point, if it exists, actually has no space. It's simply there, everywhere, in all of space, and in all of matter. It takes up all of space without taking up any of it.

From a classical view of physics, such a point allows that all of space and matter is infinitely divisible. In any case, if there really does exist a true, space-less point, then that point can be thought of as a kind of 'doorway' between God and all of His Creation. God can, then, be transcendent in the same way that He is omnipresent. In other words, He doesn't need to have extended Himself in order to be omnipresent. He doesn't need to take your chair from you in order to be in your chair: He can be in your chair right along with you without forcing you to one side.