Omnipresence of God

Question 1

What are the five (5) Basic Principles upon which all classes are based?

Every book and every class further express these principles.

Answer 1

1. The Omnipresence of God
2. The Divinity oof Humankind
3. The Value & Power of Thought
4. Practicing the Presence
5. The Law of Demonstration

Question 2

What is meant by the Omnipresence of God?

Who and What God Is.

Answer 2

Everything that exists or ever will exist is pressed out of the body of God (God Substance) in different forms of manifestation. Since the nature of God is absolute good and everything is God Substance, there can be no evil in reality.

Question 3

What is the foundational Principle of Truth?

There are three

Answer 3

1. There is but One Presence and One Power in the Universe, God the Good, Omnipotent, the everywhere-present Spirit of Absolute Good.
2. God is Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience; All Power, All Wisdom, All Intelligence, All Love, and everything there Is.
3. God is One Life, One Spirit, One Mind, One Basis, One Principle, One Being, expressed in different degrees of manifestation.

Question 4

Explain the following statement:

The nature of anything is its essential character.

Answer 4

1. The essential character of God is Absolute Good, Unchangeable, Impersonal, Eternal, Standing Under All creation with absolute integrity.
2. There are certain elements, ideas, qualities, or attributes that make up the Absolute Good we call God.
3. There are five (5) main ideas, attributes, and qualities of God. Each has its own character and function.

Question 5

What are the many names used to define the different aspects of God?

Answer 5

1. Principle
2. Spirit - Breath
3. Source
4. Divine Mind
5. Law
6. Truth
7. Omnipotence
8. Omnipresence
9. Omniscience
10. Being
11. Father - Mother

Question 6

What is God not? What happens when we attempt to make God what God is not?

Answer 6

God is not a person. If we attempt to personify God, we set God apart from us. God is not a person having qualities or attributes. God is All Good.

Question 7

What is God in relation to a person?

A Person is…
* Relative
* A Human Being
* Limited
* Confined to Place, Time, and Form
* (Has) Varied Characteristics

Answer 7

God is…

• Absolute
• Spirit and “Being”
• Infinite and Unlimited/Limitless
• Omnipresence
• Principle and Law

Question 8

Where does God Live?

Answer 8

God lives in Its manifest and unmanifest universe as everywhere-present Spirit that is replete with ideas.

Question 9

Where does God dwell?

Answer 9

God dwells in all living forms and bodies.
a. God is accessible to humankind at the center of their being.
b. God is working in all persons as
the Christ that guides them.
c. The Kingdom of God is within you.
d. The knowledge and right use of
knowledge gives one dominion
and mastery of one’s world.

Question 10

Is there any limit to God?

There is one overall answer and 5 sub-parts.

Answer 10

There is no limit to God, for God is:

a. The Principle of Absolute Good.

b. OMNIPRESENCE: All of the Presence in the universe
OMNIPOTENCE: All-Power
OMNISCIENCE: All-Knowledge

c. God is SPIRIT without shape or form.

d. God is the SOURCE of all the GOOD there is.

e. God is the only SUBSTANCE waiting for recognition by humankind.

Question 11

What is Principle? (L. principium)

Answer 11

beginning, foundation, source, origin, fundamental
truth, ultimate basis, or cause. God is Principle, the foundation, the everywhere-present Spirit of Absolute Good, on which everything rests. Principle is the reality, the underlying plan or framework of all creation.

Question 12

What is Spirit (L spiritus) - Breath

Answer 12

God is Spirit (John 4:24), the life principle, conceived as the breath of God, which is God “breathing out” God’s spirit as humankind and the universe

Question 13

What is Source - Origin?

Answer 13

God is the source, the origin of humankind and the universe.
God is the source or beginning of all divine ideas, patterns, or laws that supply us with all that is needed to live a more abundant life here and now and eternally.

Question 14

What is Divine Mind?

Answer 14

God is Divine Mind in which inhere all the divine ideas on which creation is based. It is the medium through which Principle functions: “The functioning of the principles of Being; Spirit in action… It is that which, through orderly processes, produces things.” (Page 56, Revealing Word)

Question 15

What is Law?

Answer 15

The action of the principle of Absolute Good working in and throughout all creation. “Divine law is the orderly working out of the principles of Being, or the divine ideals,
into expression and manifestation throughout creation.” (Page 117, Revealing Word)

Question 16

What is Truth?

Answer 16

The steadfast fulfillment of the divine plan, intention, or promise it is the real of all things; that which is continuous and changeless.

Question 17

What is Omnipotence?

Answer 17

The only power, or all-power, which is the ability of all creation, including humankind, to accomplish perfection and thereby fulfill itself.

Question 18

What is Omipresence?

Answer 18

The only presence in the universe; the Mind essence of substance which is all-inclusive; that which permeates, enfolds, supports, sustains, and maintains all things, every
moment.

Question 19

What is Omniscience?

Answer 19

The only wisdom, all-knowing, all-intelligence. Throughout all creation, including humankind, omniscience functions as the “knowing idea.”

Question 20

What is Being?

Answer 20

Being embraces all that has been referred to as God’s nature or character. God as Being is the one Presence and one Power. Being is, thus it is always in the
present tense, here and now.

Question 21

What is Father-Mother?

Answer 21

a. Father = (wisdom) the aspect of God which is the author of all life, the parent Mind, and “our Father” as the all-wise provider caring for us individually.
b. Mother = (feeling) the aspect of God which nurtures all creation, feeding it with ideas of life, substance, and intelligence.