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to God. While God is compassionate and benevolent
toward human beings, He is also very just. Thus, fear of
God is a result of the realization that God has the ability
of punishing wrongdoers for their evil deeds. God is all-
knowing and nothing is, or can be, hidden from Him.
A person who has fear of God constantly lives with the
sense of being accountable to Him. Even if his fellow
human beings do not have the power to implicate him
for his wrongful actions, a person who has fear of God
knows that in the Hereafter he will surely be answerable
to the Almighty for his actions, big or small. It is this
that causes a believer to naturally fear God, a concept
which serves as a source of reform in his life.

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10 How do we understand God s
omnipresence, omnipotence and

omniscience?

od is omnipresent on the basis of His knowledge of
Gthings. It does not mean that God is physically present
everywhere but that nothing escapes his knowledge. This
also explains his omniscience. His being omnipotent
means that he has set the laws of nature and without any
exception, every human being is bound by it. No one can
eliminate or alter these laws, we can only discover them
and work according to the principles God has set for this
world. His being omnipotent also implies that it is only
He who can truly reward, punish or forgive us for our
actions.

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