gengwall

We tend to view God’s omnipresence from our limited space-time paradigm. Certainly, this would have been true of Jesus’ audience when he spoke of Abraham seeing him “in the flesh”. They might understand omnipresence as God being everywhere at a point in time. But they still limit those moments in our space-time. Jesus lost them when he referenced the past, which from their perspective, could not be “revisited”.

They do not understand that in godly terms, omnipresence means not only that God is everywhere, but that God is also every-when. At this moment in our time, God is present with us here. But he is also simultaneously “present” at every spacial place at every point along our time line: past, present, and future.

It isn’t even exactly correct to say Jesus went back in time. The resurrected Jesus currently exists simultaneously at every point in our time just as He exists simultaneously at every place in our space.