![]() Psalm 139:7-12 (ESV) destroys the view that God is not in Sheol/Hades: These verses are best reconciled, in my view, by recognizing that judgment consists in being excluded from God’s presence as the source of all blessedness, but not from God’s omnipresent lordship (Michael Horton, Hell is not separation from God ). How can the damned be shut out from God’s presence and still experience fury from God, in the presence of the Lamb? They seem to be conflicting statements. They will be tormented with burning sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. #Omnipresence of god scripture fullWill drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. However, Scripture also teaches in Revelation 14:20 (NIV) that anyone who receives the beast’s image Paul speaks of being ‘shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might’ (2 Thess 1:9 NIV). There does seem to be a contradiction in Scripture regarding God’s presence in Hades or not. It is ‘the place of the dead’ (Eccl 9:10 Ps 55:23 Acts 2:27) or ‘the place of departed souls/spirits’ (Eccl 12:7 Isa 14:9-10, 19). The wicked are on earth and also in Hades/Hell. Proverbs 15:3 (NIV) supports this view: ‘The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good’. He is everywhere all the time and that means he will be present forever in hell as the Judge and perpetrator of punishment. Nor does omnipresence mean that God is in creat6ion, which is panentheism (Geisler 2003:169-170). In theism God made the world in pantheism God is the world. It does not mean that God is creation this is pantheism…. It is helpful to see what omnipresence does not mean. Negatively stated, there is nowhere that God is absent …. God is everywhere present at once (omni=everywhere = present). While blogging on a Christian forum, I met a person who wrote: ‘I don’t believe God dwells in Hell. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. ![]()
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