The Hard Questions

[studentofthemarkets]

That is an astonishing thing to say. To think you are prepared to sacrifice reason and logic, two things which if there were a God, it endowed you with.
Even though God is only imaginary, I doubt there is any greater testimony you could have made to rival that thankless idea, than for you to throw two of God's 'gifts' back in its face.

I would suggest if you have to dismiss reason and logic to defend your religious beliefs, that's a good clue there is something seriously wrong with your religious beliefs.

Stu wrote: "That is an astonishing thing to say. To think you are prepared to sacrifice reason and logic, two things which if there were a God, it endowed you with.
Even though God is only imaginary, I doubt there is any greater testimony you could have made to rival that thankless idea, than for you to throw two of God's 'gifts' back in its face.

I would suggest if you have to dismiss reason and logic to defend your religious beliefs, that's a good clue there is something seriously wrong with your religious beliefs."
I never said to dismiss logic or reasoning. In fact, it IS logic and reasoning that has led me to a faith in God. I reasoned about my sinful condition before a Holy God and made a logical decision to trust in Jesus, because of His subsitutionary work on the cross for me, so that I could have the righteousness of Christ instead of my sin. Instead of heading for hell, I am now destined for heaven. That is a logical decision.

I was referring to using logic and reasoning apart from what God has revealed about Himself. Using my own or others' reasonings to come up with who we think God is, is impossible for people to do. We can only know God through His revelation to us, and He has clearly said that He has revealed Himself in the Scriptures.

However, there are many evidences to believe the Bible. The prophecies of scripture are some of the strongest evidences. The harmony of the scriptures....that even in Genesis you have the the plural form of God used in the word Elohim, and it directly mentions the Spirit of God hovering over the waters. "Let US make man in OUR image." Is this not also a strong proof that the plurality of persons within the Godhead was not something invented in the New Testament? You have the idea of a substitute needed for humans because our judgment is that "dying you shall surely die" and animal sacrifices were began, from the time of Adam and Eve, looking ahead to the promise of the protoevangelium-already discussed with you, the promise that one would be born who would crush the head of the serpent (Satan) yet Himself would suffer as a bruised heal (recoverable). ALL of the Old Testament is, for the most part, looking forward to Jesus and somewhat revealing of Him. Isaiah, a book that has been proven to exist in it's current form before Jesus' birth has many, many specific prophecies about Jesus. But I will only list one:

Isaiah 53:5-6
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him
and by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray.
We have turned, every one, to his own way,
and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
​

Believing that this prophecy, written about 700 years before Jesus came, and there is a copy of it that dates to about 150 years before Jesus came, applies to Jesus is the most logical and reasonable thing a person can do.

However, this passage is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many, many prophecies that were fulfilled in Jesus. Truly, God HAS spoken to the prophets and revealed Himself to us in Jesus.

https://jewsforjesus.org/answers/top-40-most-helpful-messianic-prophecies/

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[expiated]

I would suggest if you have to dismiss reason and logic to defend your religious beliefs, that's a good clue there is something seriously wrong with your religious beliefs.

Comments like the one above always amuse me. For example, in the thread where I'm looking into the problems with conventional evolution, a member who went by the name Pie Zoe (whom I now have on ignore because with his second post he immediately went off topic, commenting about Donald Trump and whatnot) he brought up how "advocates of the seeding from another planet hypothesis will note that this observation of unique codons in some primitive species would probably require more than one flying saucer landing."

He mentions this as if it might be considered a logical and reasoned answer for resolving the inability of Darwin's hypothesis of adaptive evolution to adequately explain the mechanism of intra-species transformation. As others have pointed out, all this does is move the problem of the origin of life to another location. It in no way explains how life first came about.

I'm more inclined to give credence to those who suggest that there are only four real possibilities when it comes to explaining the existence of the universe:

The universe...

1. ...is an illusion.
2. ...created itself.
3. ...is self-existent and eternal.
4. ...was brought into existence by something other than itself.

However, for the universe to be an illusion, there must be something somewhere imagining it. Consequently, explaining the existence of the universe by claiming it is an illusion merely shifts questions about the origin of life to whatever it is that is imagining the universe.

The second possibility, that the universe created itself, is ruled out by the law of thermodynamics, the law of cause and effect, and the law of non-contradiction. For to create itself, the universe would have had to exist before it existed, which is utter nonsense.

Currently, the most widely accepted paradigm within the scientific community is that the universe had a definite beginning which stretches back to the "Big Bang." But, this rules out the assertion that the universe is self-existent and eternal.

This leaves only one possibility… that the universe owes its existence to something outside itself. This entity would have had to have been an extremely powerful preexisting intervening force transcending time, energy, space and matter.

Given that an eternal, almighty God who is spirit rather than material meets every one of these requirements, I hardly find it illogical to view this as the most reasonable explanation, especially given all of the observable evidence present, such as the existence of the Bible, its fulfilled prophecies, God Himself actually walking the earth and performing miracles, etc.

If attributing life on earth to "more than one flying saucer landing" is supposed to be more rational than giving credit to a "transcendent, extremely powerful, intervening force that existed prior to the creation of matter, energy, space and time," then I guess reason and logic are beyond my understanding.

 

[stu]

The universe...

1. ...is an illusion.
2. ...created itself.
3. ...is self-existent and eternal.
4. ...was brought into existence by something other than itself.

However, for the universe to be an illusion, there must be something somewhere imagining it. Consequently, explaining the existence of the universe by claiming it is an illusion merely shifts questions about the origin of life to whatever it is that is imagining the universe.

The second possibility, that the universe created itself, is ruled out by the law of thermodynamics, the law of cause and effect, and the law of non-contradiction. For to create itself, the universe would have had to exist before it existed, which is utter nonsense.

Currently, the most widely accepted paradigm within the scientific community is that the universe had a definite beginning which stretches back to the "Big Bang." But, this rules out the assertion that the universe is self-existent and eternal.

This leaves only one possibility… that the universe owes its existence to something outside itself. This entity would have had to have been an extremely powerful preexisting intervening force transcending time, energy, space and matter.

"
God...

1. ...is an illusion.
2. ...created itself.
3. ...is self-existent and eternal.
4. ...was brought into existence by something other than itself.

However, for God to be an illusion, there must be something somewhere imagining it. Consequently, explaining the existence of God by claiming it is an illusion merely shifts questions about the origin of life to whatever it is that is imagining God.

The second possibility, that God created itself, is ruled out by the law of thermodynamics, the law of cause and effect, and the law of non-contradiction. For to create itself, God would have had to exist before it existed, which is utter nonsense.

Currently, the most widely accepted paradigm within the scientific community is that God is nothing to do with science as science deals with the real world not imaginary supernatural deities.

This leaves only one possibility… that God owes its existence to something outside itself. This entity is in reality, extremely superstitious ancient beings called humans.
"​

 

[stu]

I never said to dismiss logic or reasoning. In fact, it IS logic and reasoning that has led me to a faith in God.

The Bible says your condition is sinful therefore you're condition is sinful. That represents little to no reasoning past un-reasoned blind faith.

I was referring to using logic and reasoning apart from what God has revealed about Himself.

Indeed you dismiss logic and reasoning outside the Bible but contrary to logic and reasoning, claim they're present only within it.

Using my own or others' reasonings to come up with who we think God is, is impossible for people to do.

Exactly. As you say, you can't use logic and reasoning even 'to come up with who you think God is'.

We can only know God through His revelation to us, and He has clearly said that He has revealed Himself in the Scriptures.

Now you can 'come up with who you think God is'. Which is it going to be?
Don't worry, it was just a rhetorical question anyway. Your evangelicalizing won't help logic or reasoning toward providing any logical or reasonable answer.

If what you "know" can't be subjected to any external logic and reasoning, you can never logically reason if what you "know" is reasonable or not.

Instead of heading for hell, I am now destined for heaven. That is a logical decision.

oof.. careful with that hubris dude. Isn't it supposed to be your imaginary God which decides who gets to your heaven?

Matthew 7
"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

I reasoned about my sinful condition

John 3
"He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning."
You must have reasoned you are of the devil.

John 3
"Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin;"

Ah, but too late John. Logic and reasoning dictates whoever John was, can't un-say something once they have said it.
The sin has already been committeth. According to the Bible you are already of the devil.

The Bible illogically ties itself in this type and worse self-contradiction knots all the time. If the so called 'Son of God' in this scenario was supposed to have been manifested to destroy the works of the devil, then it manifestly failed. Otherwise logic and reasoning suggests you wouldn't have been born with sin in the first place. For according to your faith and against all logic and reasoning, you don't have the free will you're told you do have, not to be born with sin. Rather you should have to choose to purposely commit sin.

That would have been a far more logical and reasonable argument. Then you could, say, make a promise to imaginary Jesus to not do so again. That is if your self-worth wasn't strong enough to make that determination to do good without subjugation to an imaginary friend, but more simply and more purely for the sake of it.

" Christianity : Believe in Jesus then it doesn’t matter so much how you live your life, it’s all about whether you believe in a conceived-without-sex god-man zombie and self-propelled astronaut, referenced in an ancient, highly-contradictory, politically-compiled book bereft of any original manuscripts that was authored in foreign lands and in foreign languages decades after the fact by unknown non-eyewitnesses, and interpolated and edited for centuries by error-prone, agenda-laden scribes, then manipulatively translated by ardent believers and preached by cherry-picking pastors."​

 

[destriero]

ALL HAIL SATAN!

 

[studentofthemarkets]

"
God...

1. ...is an illusion.
2. ...created itself.
3. ...is self-existent and eternal.
4. ...was brought into existence by something other than itself.

However, for God to be an illusion, there must be something somewhere imagining it. Consequently, explaining the existence of God by claiming it is an illusion merely shifts questions about the origin of life to whatever it is that is imagining God.

The second possibility, that God created itself, is ruled out by the law of thermodynamics, the law of cause and effect, and the law of non-contradiction. For to create itself, God would have had to exist before it existed, which is utter nonsense.

Currently, the most widely accepted paradigm within the scientific community is that God is nothing to do with science as science deals with the real world not imaginary supernatural deities.

This leaves only one possibility… that God owes its existence to something outside itself. This entity is in reality, extremely superstitious ancient beings called humans.
"​

Responding to Stu's response to Expiated:

In defense of God...not necessarily Expiated:

I am not going to enter into a discussion with you on each of your arguments. Enough has been presented by Expiated and myself that any honest seekers of God know that I and other Christians have testified that we have come into a relationship with God personally, through Jesus and His substitutionary work on our behalf, as His word tells us, and that God has revealed Himself and truth in the Bible alone.

God Himself has given us all we need to know on the matter:

"I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God." Isaiah 45:5a NASB

"Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me." Isaiah 46:9 NASB

"Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:

‘I am the first and I am the last,
And there is no God besides Me.
7 ‘Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and declare it;
Yes, let him recount it to Me in order,
From the time that I established the ancient nation.
And let them declare to them the things that are coming
And the events that are going to take place.
8 ‘Do not tremble and do not be afraid;
Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it?
And you are My witnesses.
Is there any God besides Me,
Or is there any other Rock?
I know of none.’” Isaiah 44:6-8 NASB

 

[studentofthemarkets]

The Bible says your condition is sinful therefore you're condition is sinful. That represents little to no reasoning past un-reasoned blind faith.


Indeed you dismiss logic and reasoning outside the Bible but contrary to logic and reasoning, claim they're present only within it.


Exactly. As you say, you can't use logic and reasoning even 'to come up with who you think God is'.


Now you can 'come up with who you think God is'. Which is it going to be?
Don't worry, it was just a rhetorical question anyway. Your evangelicalizing won't help logic or reasoning toward providing any logical or reasonable answer.

If what you "know" can't be subjected to any external logic and reasoning, you can never logically reason if what you "know" is reasonable or not.


oof.. careful with that hubris dude. Isn't it supposed to be your imaginary God which decides who gets to your heaven?

Matthew 7
"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."


John 3
"He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning."
You must have reasoned you are of the devil.

John 3
"Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin;"

Ah, but too late John. Logic and reasoning dictates whoever John was, can't un-say something once they have said it.
The sin has already been committeth. According to the Bible you are already of the devil.

The Bible illogically ties itself in this type and worse self-contradiction knots all the time. If the so called 'Son of God' in this scenario was supposed to have been manifested to destroy the works of the devil, then it manifestly failed. Otherwise logic and reasoning suggests you wouldn't have been born with sin in the first place. For according to your faith and against all logic and reasoning, you don't have the free will you're told you do have, not to be born with sin. Rather you should have to choose to purposely commit sin.

That would have been a far more logical and reasonable argument. Then you could, say, make a promise to imaginary Jesus to not do so again. That is if your self-worth wasn't strong enough to make that determination to do good without subjugation to an imaginary friend, but more simply and more purely for the sake of it.

" Christianity : Believe in Jesus then it doesn’t matter so much how you live your life, it’s all about whether you believe in a conceived-without-sex god-man zombie and self-propelled astronaut, referenced in an ancient, highly-contradictory, politically-compiled book bereft of any original manuscripts that was authored in foreign lands and in foreign languages decades after the fact by unknown non-eyewitnesses, and interpolated and edited for centuries by error-prone, agenda-laden scribes, then manipulatively translated by ardent believers and preached by cherry-picking pastors."​

Response to Stu:

Your words are not worth my time to answer.

"My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments." Colossians 2:2-4 NIV

 

[Good1]

(Response to Good1)

The Bible says, "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness." 2 Timothy 3:16 KJV

I will believe the Bible.

The bible is not wholly believable given the nature of parables . A parable is not something you believe, but rather *understand*.

Take the popular ethnic salacious liturature called "The Song of Solomon". What exactly is there to believe? It appears to illustrate a man's lust for a woman but I can't be too certain of that. What man? What woman? I have no clue. Solomon? I don't know. A concubine? One of 500 concubines? I don't know.

So when you say you believe ancient ethnic liturature what exactly are you even believing?

Some say the narrative of lust is a parable. Ok, so what do you believe? Parables do not explicitly contain their own de-coded meanings. So who is telling you what the lust really means? Is it they/them whom you believe? If so, then you believe them, and what they say about the book. Meanwhile the book remains unbelievable . Prima facia it appears to be the musings of a rich man, presuming it costs a lot of money to write racy longings on parchment. But I still don't know what to believe about it because it doesn't lend itself to interpretation as if it were a parable.

How is it you know what to believe about the Song of Solomon?

When, exactly, was the moment you decided you believed the Son of Solomon?

Did you start believing on a Saturday at 3 p.m.?

What were you thinking the moment you decided you believed the Song of Solomon?

Were you thinking, 'Yes, on a hot afternoon in 2003 BC Solomon did historically lust after a woman '?

Were you thinking it was "God-breathed"?

 

[ph1l]

I felt like someone should at least defend God.

According to https://www.openbible.info/topics/omnipotence, God is omnipotent.

Omnipotence


Revelation 19:6 ESV / 3,971 helpful votes
Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 3,802 helpful votes
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 3,792 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 3,214 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Psalm 147:5 ESV / 2,963 helpful votes
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Job 42:2 ESV / 2,918 helpful votes
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 2,846 helpful votes
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 2,393 helpful votes
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2,248 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Psalm 139:7-10 ESV / 2,064 helpful votes
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Jeremiah 32:17 ESV / 2,049 helpful votes
‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Revelation 1:8 ESV / 2,034 helpful votes
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Mark 10:27 ESV / 2,004 helpful votes
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”

Genesis 18:14 ESV / 1,956 helpful votes
Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”

Daniel 4:35 ESV / 1,949 helpful votes
All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 1,901 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,

Genesis 1:3 ESV / 1,880 helpful votes
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Romans 4:17 ESV / 1,845 helpful votes
As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

Jeremiah 32:27 ESV / 1,834 helpful votes
“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?

Proverbs 15:3 ESV / 1,724 helpful votes
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Jeremiah 23:24 ESV / 1,701 helpful votes
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 1,688 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Hebrews 4:13 ESV / 1,671 helpful votes
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

John 1:3 ESV / 1,667 helpful votes
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Psalm 139:7 ESV / 1,616 helpful votes
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?

Colossians 1:17 ESV / 1,577 helpful votes
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

1 Peter 1:5 ESV / 1,559 helpful votes
Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 1,500 helpful votes
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Ephesians 1:19 ESV / 1,493 helpful votes
And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1,486 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Luke 1:35 ESV / 1,482 helpful votes
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.

Romans 6:4 ESV / 1,392 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Isaiah 50:2 ESV / 1,378 helpful votes
Why, when I came, was there no man; why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 1,368 helpful votes
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 43:13 ESV / 1,363 helpful votes
Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 1,317 helpful votes
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Genesis 17:1 ESV / 1,284 helpful votes
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,

Matthew 10:30 ESV / 1,268 helpful votes
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Matthew 12:28 ESV / 1,249 helpful votes
But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 1,229 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...

Psalm 135:6 ESV / 1,204 helpful votes
Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 1,202 helpful votes
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

Matthew 17:20 ESV / 1,170 helpful votes
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

Psalm 115:3 ESV / 1,162 helpful votes
Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

Mark 9:23 ESV / 1,152 helpful votes
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”

Isaiah 6:5 ESV / 1,152 helpful votes
And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1,149 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 6:9 ESV / 1,146 helpful votes
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

John 3:16 ESV / 1,143 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 1,140 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Luke 18:27 ESV / 1,136 helpful votes
But he said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”

Amos 4:13 ESV / 1,134 helpful votes
For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

Psalm 33:6 ESV / 1,110 helpful votes
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

Psalm 33:9 ESV / 1,105 helpful votes
For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.

Psalm 72:18 ESV / 1,100 helpful votes
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.

Matthew 10:29 ESV / 1,099 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Jeremiah 25:9 ESV / 1,099 helpful votes
Behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

Isaiah 31:3 ESV / 1,099 helpful votes
The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

Isaiah 10:5 ESV / 1,099 helpful votes
Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!

Isaiah 2:22 ESV / 1,099 helpful votes
Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

Job 5:9 ESV / 1,098 helpful votes
Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:

Genesis 49:24 ESV / 1,098 helpful votes
Yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),

Job 37:23 ESV / 1,089 helpful votes
The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

John 2:19 ESV / 1,088 helpful votes
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

Revelation 21:22 ESV / 1,022 helpful votes
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.

Matthew 28:18 ESV / 1,020 helpful votes
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Matthew 8:16 ESV / 999 helpful votes
That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick.

Romans 15:19 ESV / 992 helpful votes
By the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;

Hebrews 7:25 ESV / 991 helpful votes
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Luke 12:7 ESV / 971 helpful votes
Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Isaiah 46:9-10 ESV / 959 helpful votes
Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 926 helpful votes
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Deuteronomy 33:27 ESV / 892 helpful votes
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 887 helpful votes
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Luke 5:8 ESV / 873 helpful votes
But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”

Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 845 helpful votes
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

John 4:24 ESV / 839 helpful votes
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 836 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

1 Kings 8:27 ESV / 825 helpful votes
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

Daniel 2:20-22 ESV / 823 helpful votes
Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 817 helpful votes
Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

1 Corinthians 1:25 ESV / 815 helpful votes
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Acts 26:8 ESV / 806 helpful votes
Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?

Romans 8:28 ESV / 782 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 780 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Luke 4:6 ESV / 779 helpful votes
And said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 774 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Matthew 10:27 ESV / 768 helpful votes
What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.

Matthew 10:27-28 ESV / 766 helpful votes
What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 755 helpful votes
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Job 36:26 ESV / 748 helpful votes
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.

Job 11:7-11 ESV / 742 helpful votes
“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know? Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea. If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back? For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?

John 1:1 ESV / 732 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:18 ESV / 725 helpful votes
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

1 John 4:4 ESV / 711 helpful votes
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Matthew 10:1-42 ESV / 711 helpful votes
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, ...

Jude 1:24-25 ESV / 680 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

Luke 1:2 ESV / 677 helpful votes
Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,

Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 674 helpful votes
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 640 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Similarly, https://www.openbible.info/topics/omniscience says God is omniscient.

Omniscience


Psalm 147:5 ESV / 342 helpful votes
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

1 John 3:20 ESV / 331 helpful votes
For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

Hebrews 4:13 ESV / 241 helpful votes
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 223 helpful votes
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Proverbs 15:3 ESV / 215 helpful votes
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 207 helpful votes
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 187 helpful votes
“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Acts 1:24 ESV / 185 helpful votes
And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen

Matthew 10:30 ESV / 180 helpful votes
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Jeremiah 23:24 ESV / 165 helpful votes
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.

Psalm 147:4 ESV / 144 helpful votes
He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.

Romans 11:33-36 ESV / 142 helpful votes
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Isaiah 40:13-14 ESV / 132 helpful votes
Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel? Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

Romans 11:33 ESV / 123 helpful votes
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Job 28:24 ESV / 122 helpful votes
For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

Isaiah 42:9 ESV / 116 helpful votes
Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

Isaiah 46:9-10 ESV / 115 helpful votes
Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Psalm 147:4-5 ESV / 111 helpful votes
He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Psalm 139:1-4 ESV / 111 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

Psalm 139:4 ESV / 109 helpful votes
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

1 Corinthians 2:11 ESV / 103 helpful votes
For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 99 helpful votes
Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Psalm 139:1-6 ESV / 99 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 97 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Matthew 10:29-30 ESV / 94 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

1 Kings 8:39 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),

Romans 1:20 ESV / 91 helpful votes
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

John 21:17 ESV / 91 helpful votes
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 91 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...

Psalm 56:8 ESV / 90 helpful votes
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?

Job 34:21 ESV / 90 helpful votes
“For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

Acts 15:18 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Known from of old.’

Matthew 6:8 ESV / 87 helpful votes
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Job 37:16 ESV / 86 helpful votes
Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,

Acts 17:27 ESV / 85 helpful votes
That they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

Psalm 139:7-10 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Psalm 33:13-15 ESV / 84 helpful votes
The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.

Psalm 139:12 ESV / 83 helpful votes
Even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

Deuteronomy 29:29 ESV / 83 helpful votes
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Proverbs 5:21 ESV / 82 helpful votes
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.

Revelation 2:23 ESV / 80 helpful votes
And I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 80 helpful votes
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Acts 2:23 ESV / 79 helpful votes
This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

Ezekiel 8:12 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

Isaiah 44:6-8 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen. Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.”

Malachi 3:16 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.

Isaiah 41:22-24 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come. Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified. Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.

Matthew 10:29 ESV / 74 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Hosea 13:12 ESV / 74 helpful votes
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.

Job 14:17 ESV / 74 helpful votes
My transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.

John 3:16 ESV / 72 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 72 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Jeremiah 23:23 ESV / 72 helpful votes
“Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away?

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 72 helpful votes
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 71 helpful votes
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Revelation 19:6 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

Isaiah 29:15 ESV / 69 helpful votes
Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”

Psalm 139:1 ESV / 69 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

Psalm 139:2 ESV / 68 helpful votes
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

Amos 3:7 ESV / 64 helpful votes
“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 64 helpful votes
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Isaiah 40:26 ESV / 63 helpful votes
Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 61 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

1 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 60 helpful votes
But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.

Psalm 33:15 ESV / 60 helpful votes
He who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.

Luke 16:15 ESV / 59 helpful votes
And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Psalm 90:8 ESV / 59 helpful votes
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Job 34:23 ESV / 59 helpful votes
For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

John 6:64 ESV / 58 helpful votes
But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

Job 21:22 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?

Exodus 3:14 ESV / 58 helpful votes
God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Luke 1:37 ESV / 57 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 6:32 ESV / 57 helpful votes
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

Genesis 18:21 ESV / 57 helpful votes
I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know.”

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 56 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Matthew 11:22-23 ESV / 56 helpful votes
But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Amos 4:13 ESV / 56 helpful votes
For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

Ezekiel 9:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

Isaiah 43:8-12 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears! All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true. “You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior. I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God.

Psalm 139:23-24 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

Psalm 139:7 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?

Isaiah 41:22-27 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come. Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified. Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you. I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay. Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, “He is right”? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words. ...

Proverbs 15:11 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord; how much more the hearts of the children of man!

Psalm 139:6 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

Psalm 97:9 ESV / 54 helpful votes
For you, O Lord, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.

John 14:6 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Isaiah 43:2 ESV / 53 helpful votes
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

Psalm 44:21 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Acts 15:8 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

Psalm 94:7-9 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And they say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.” Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?

Psalm 33:13-18 ESV / 52 helpful votes
The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds. The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue. ...

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 49 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Psalm 19:12 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.

Psalm 14:2 ESV / 49 helpful votes
The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Psalm 10:11-12 ESV / 48 helpful votes
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.” Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.

Job 34:22 ESV / 48 helpful votes
There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

Also, omnipresent. https://www.openbible.info/topics/omnipresence

Omnipresence


Proverbs 15:3 ESV / 1,733 helpful votes
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Jeremiah 23:24 ESV / 1,690 helpful votes
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.

Psalm 139:7-10 ESV / 1,524 helpful votes
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Psalm 139:7 ESV / 1,500 helpful votes
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 1,137 helpful votes
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 1,112 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...

1 Kings 8:27 ESV / 1,063 helpful votes
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

Colossians 1:17 ESV / 1,017 helpful votes
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 982 helpful votes
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 968 helpful votes
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Isaiah 43:2 ESV / 948 helpful votes
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

Jeremiah 23:23-24 ESV / 910 helpful votes
“Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.

Hebrews 4:13 ESV / 836 helpful votes
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Job 34:21 ESV / 816 helpful votes
“For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

Acts 17:27 ESV / 770 helpful votes
That they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

Isaiah 66:1 ESV / 747 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 732 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Psalm 139:1 ESV / 673 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

Psalm 11:4 ESV / 587 helpful votes
The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 586 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Psalm 139:5 ESV / 581 helpful votes
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.

Colossians 2:9 ESV / 568 helpful votes
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

Acts 17:28 ESV / 560 helpful votes
For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

John 1:3-5 ESV / 559 helpful votes
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 559 helpful votes
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Revelation 19:6 ESV / 550 helpful votes
Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

Luke 17:21 ESV / 544 helpful votes
Nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 529 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Jeremiah 23:23 ESV / 527 helpful votes
“Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away?

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 522 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Romans 1:20 ESV / 515 helpful votes
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

John 1:14 ESV / 515 helpful votes
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Psalm 147:5 ESV / 514 helpful votes
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Amos 9:2 ESV / 511 helpful votes
“If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 503 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Matthew 6:6 ESV / 499 helpful votes
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Psalm 139:2 ESV / 496 helpful votes
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

Psalm 139:7-12 ESV / 488 helpful votes
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” ...

Matthew 6:9 ESV / 474 helpful votes
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

John 3:16 ESV / 472 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 460 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Genesis 28:12 ESV / 454 helpful votes
And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 450 helpful votes
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Revelation 1:8 ESV / 442 helpful votes
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

1 Kings 8:1-66 ESV / 438 helpful votes
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. And they brought up the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up. And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. ...

Romans 8:9 ESV / 425 helpful votes
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

Deuteronomy 4:39 ESV / 423 helpful votes
Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.

Psalm 2:4 ESV / 422 helpful votes
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

Ephesians 3:11 ESV / 421 helpful votes
This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Romans 8:11 ESV / 420 helpful votes
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Ephesians 1:20 ESV / 414 helpful votes
That he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

Psalm 20:2 ESV / 414 helpful votes
May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion!

Acts 7:48 ESV / 413 helpful votes
Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,

Revelation 21:3 ESV / 411 helpful votes
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

John 14:23 ESV / 402 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 2:19 ESV / 397 helpful votes
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 396 helpful votes
You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 10:21 ESV / 396 helpful votes
And since we have a great priest over the house of God,

Ephesians 2:21-22 ESV / 396 helpful votes
In whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

John 4:24 ESV / 396 helpful votes
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Titus 1:2 ESV / 395 helpful votes
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

Matthew 10:1-42 ESV / 394 helpful votes
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 387 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 387 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,

Psalm 139:8 ESV / 387 helpful votes
If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

Matthew 5:34 ESV / 384 helpful votes
But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,

Habakkuk 2:20 ESV / 384 helpful votes
But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.”

Amos 1:2 ESV / 384 helpful votes
And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.”

Joel 3:21 ESV / 384 helpful votes
I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.”

Joel 3:16 ESV / 384 helpful votes
The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.

Amos 9:6 ESV / 383 helpful votes
Who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the Lord is his name.

Hosea 9:3 ESV / 381 helpful votes
They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 380 helpful votes
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Isaiah 63:15 ESV / 378 helpful votes
Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and beautiful habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion are held back from me.

1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 370 helpful votes
“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 367 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 357 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 357 helpful votes
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 354 helpful votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Matthew 10:27 ESV / 348 helpful votes
What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.

Matthew 10:27-28 ESV / 348 helpful votes
What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:29-30 ESV / 347 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

2 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 344 helpful votes
I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.

Isaiah 8:18 ESV / 342 helpful votes
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 333 helpful votes
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Psalm 44:21 ESV / 330 helpful votes
Would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Isaiah 46:9-10 ESV / 327 helpful votes
Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Psalm 139:6-16 ESV / 323 helpful votes
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. ...

Psalm 139:5-10 ESV / 319 helpful votes
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, ...

Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 300 helpful votes
One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Psalm 3:4 ESV / 287 helpful votes
I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 286 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Psalm 104:3 ESV / 284 helpful votes
He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;

Psalm 99:1 ESV / 280 helpful votes
The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!

Psalm 48:2 ESV / 279 helpful votes
Beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.

John 1:1 ESV / 275 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Psalm 46:5 ESV / 272 helpful votes
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

1 Corinthians 12:11 ESV / 269 helpful votes
All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 265 helpful votes
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

Psalm 26:8 ESV / 259 helpful votes
O Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.

Why would someone all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere at all times need to be defended?

 

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(Response to Good1)

The Bible says, "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness." 2 Timothy 3:16 KJV

I will believe the Bible.

First of all belief, believing, and faith are sins. They are sins against knowledge. The most basic love of wisdom should tell you that believing and knowledge are exclusive opposites that cannot coexist . Either you know or you believe. You cannot believe what you know and you cannot know what you believe.

So why do you think you've done something honorable by choosing a moment in time to believe something as obscure, dark, non-transparent and confusing as a book that combines parables with historical accounts of wars and census takings?

You believe whats put forth as historical actually happened?

What do you believe about the proverbs? All true?

What do you believe about the prayers? All said?

What do you believe about the parables? All true?

But how can a parable be true when you don't even understand what it means ?

Do you believe what your pastor tells you about the parables ?

Can a historical event also be a parable from which to draw lessons?

Where is the understanding of a parable located ? In the parable (book/bible) itself? In your mind? Where is your mind?

Supposing the crucifixion of Jesus was historical, can it also be a parable or even a parody?

Likewise the resurrection of Jesus . History, parable, parody?

If Jesus taught in parables, why do you think the cross and resurrection were not teachable moments to be interpreted and understood ?

The parable of the prodigal son for example. Why do you not believe it is the story of the beginning and end of the world of man?

Also, why do you not believe that the intra-biblical term "god of this world" is not a reference to the maker of man's world? Or, how do you take something so prima fascia obvious and force a completely different meaning on it, as if there was some other god other than the god of this world?