If you’re not coming from LRCHouston- Sept. 10th, it might be helpful to start there, as this is more or less a follow up from there.
Martin Luther changed a whole lot of the religious landscape with his reformational spirit. Few are aware that he not only wrote the Bible in German, took on the Catholic church and it’s “indulgences“, but also changed the books of the Bible. Say what? Can you do that? He did, but then he changed that too. I’m fine with the New Testament canon being closed. I mean, who am I to question that? But, the books of the New Testament are not the sole revelation of God, any more than the historical or living Christ is.
Where is it that we can CONFINE God to? Tell me! Where?
Omnipresence is just that; the ability to be present in every place at any, and/or every, time; unbounded or universal presence. So, God wasn’t at some point “back then”. God is NOW and He is forever NOW. God has spoken, God is speaking, and God will forever be speaking, whether we listen or not.
I Peter 2:6 tells us that Jesus is the corner stone and the greatest example of whom God IS; however, where the name of Jesus has never been heard, God’s there nonetheless. And I am not going to sell God short and say that He’s not capable outside of Jesus, to care for His creation.
Many do.
God has not separated Himself from ANY of His creation and Romans 8:38,39 reminds us of that. And, as Norman Pittenger wrote, “The early church fathers in the Patristic age, recognized the work of the “Logos” throughout the cosmos, human history, and every child of God”. The world was made by the Logos and thus the incarnation is in ALL things.
I know that’s a bit deep for some, but while Jesus was the manifested incarnation of God, the incarnation is still with us, everywhere we look. God is not the ruthless moralist that many denominations have painted Him to be. Moral? No doubt! Ruthless? No way! The remedial aspect of the atonement (because of sin) is secondary for me. Or as I often put things, overcoming sin is a good place to begin, but a lousy place to end. The chief benefit of the atonement is bringing men into relationship with God.
God is omnipresence and God is “still” speaking, loving, revealing!
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