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Study Section 6: Jesus’s Attributes of Omnipresence, Omniscience,
and Omnipotence.

6.1. Connect.

The Bible says that God is omnipresent (everywhere), omniscient (all knowing), and
omnipotent (all powerful). How can God be present in North Carolina, in Zambia, in India, and
every place in the world at the same time? And we have similar questions for the attributes of
omniscience and omnipotence. Do you fully understand these attributes of God? Let’s see if
we can better understand these attributes, especially how they relate to Jesus Christ. Let’s get
started….

6.2. Objectives.

1. The student should be able to discuss passages that instruct us on God’s attributes of
omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence.

2. The student should be able to endeavor to fetch offensive elements against disapprobative
precarious teachings we looked at in section one and draw up some principles for evangelism and
edification.

6.3. Jesus’s Attributes

Omnipresence (All-Present)
The word “trinity” is not found in the Bible; neither is the term “omnipresence” or “rapture”
found in Scripture. Then why is the trinity an established doctrine in the Bible? It is because,
while these words are not found in the Bible, the truths about of them are taught in the
Bible. Merrill C. Tenney argues that “Neither the noun ‘omnipresence’ nor the adjective
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‘omnipresent’ occurs anywhere in Scripture, but the idea is a Scriptural necessity.”

Geoffrey W. Bromiley has similar thoughts concerning the absence of those terms in the Bible.
However, he maintains that “the idea that God is everywhere present is throughout presupposed
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and sometimes explicitly formulated.” Wayne Grudem puts it in this way, “Just as God is unlimited
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or infinite with respect to time, so God is unlimited with respect to space.”

Brief Definition of Omnipresence
Omnipresent is a compound word. Omni is a Latin prefix which means “all.” Presence is “being
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there.” Written in the Moody Handbook of Theology concerning the omnipresence of God are the

71 Merrill C. Tenney, ed., The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, 2 ed. (Grand Rapids, MI:
nd
Zondervan, 1976), 4, M-P: 531.

72 Geoffrey W. Bromiley, ed., The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Grand Rapids, MI: William
B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982), 3, K-P: 595.

73 Grudem, Systematic Theology, 173.

74 Grudem, Systematic Theology, 173.

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