Many words in the English language start with 'omni.' The word means all combining forms, such as omnibus, which means to combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package; omnidirectional, which means being involved in all directions, such as the antenna in your cell phone; and omnivore, which refers to an animal that is naturally able to eat both plants and meat.
Applied to the Triune God, ‘omni’ refers to all of His attributes as complete, perfect, and infinite, and it reveals His character. It is through the attributes of God that people can better understand Him. God's love, sovereignty, faithfulness, mercy, holiness, power, knowledge, justice, and goodness are all "omni" and are beyond human comprehension and understanding. There is nothing God cannot do. The greater the comprehension of who He is, the more complete trust in Him will be in Him for what He has done and will ever do. The greatest mystery of Heaven is that God knows everything about us - our words, thoughts, and deeds – and loves us anyway. God is omni Omni.
One Eternal Triune God
The Bible declares there is only one eternal God who always existed in eternity past and into eternity future in three persons in what is known as the Trinity – God, the Father, God, the Son, Jesus Christ, and God, the Holy Spirit, who each have their own spirit-body, mind, and spirit (Deuteronomy 33:27; Isaiah 44:6; 57:15; 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:6; Psalm 147:5; Jeremiah 23:24; Acts 17:24-28). These are beyond all human comprehension or understanding and can't be explained with any esoteric analogies.
The infinite, majestic God is not some universal mind or consciousness that fills space and matter, nor is He confined to three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. He can be in more than one place at a moment. God has been seen physically by human eyes many times (Genesis 18:1-33; 19:24; 32:24-30; Exodus 24:11; 33:11-33; Joshua 5:13-15; Judges 6:11-23; 13:3-25; 1 Chronicles. 21:16-17; Job 42:5; Isaiah 6; Ezekial 1:26-28; 10:1,20; 40:3; Daniel 7:9-14; 10:5-10; Acts 7:56-59; Revelation 4:2-5; 5:1,5-7,11-14; 6:16; 7:9-17; 19:4; 21:3-5; 22:4).
The Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are unique and separate individuals with their own personalities and are not the essential parts of one Being. They have always existed together with no point of origin. God can be clearly seen as "being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse" (Romans 1:20 KJV).
The Bible says that God has clearly revealed Himself to every human being since time began in the beauty of the heavens, "for since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, his eternal power, and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse" (Romans 1:18-20 NIV).
God the Son, Jesus Christ
Jesus is God, the Son (John 1:1; Colossians 1:15-19; 1 John 5:7-8; Luke 4:34) and came to Earth as 100% fully human and 100% fully God from a reality eternally separate from Earth (John 8:23-24). He has no beginning and no end. Jesus has been given all authority in Heaven and Earth. He willingly chose to come to Earth as a human in the flesh, which gave Him the essential power to save anyone who receives Him as Lord and Savior from the penalty of sin through His shed blood on the Cross (Matthew 1:18; 4:2; Luke 2:40; John 4:6; 8:40; 11:35; 19:28; Hebrews 2:16-18).
Jesus is not the Father or His offspring. Jesus claimed that He came from and not by God, the Father, and was going back to Him (John 8:42,16:5,10:36,17:8). The Father was in Heaven all the time that Jesus was on Earth (Matthew 5:16,48). Over 80 times, Jesus affirmed that He was not the Father (ex: John 14:1-9). Jesus made it clear that He and not the only person in the Godhead was not the Father. Jesus was the speaker, but not the one spoken of or to (Matthew 7:21; 11:27; 18:10,35; Luke 2:49; John 5:17-43; 8:19-49; 10:17-37; 14:7-28; 15:1-26; Revelation 1:1; etc.).
Jesus had a virgin birth from a surrogate mother. He is not ‘a’ god or the biological offspring of God or humanity (Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:35). As 100% human, He relied on His divinity as well as the Father and the Holy Spirit to perform miracles to prove He was also 100% fully God (Luke 4:18; John 10:33-39; Mark. 4:35-41).
While on Earth, Jesus did not seek His glory, but that of the Father (John 8:50-54,17:4). He received all power in Heaven and in Earth (Matthew 28:18). He was resurrected and exalted by the Father (Ephesians 1:20-23; Philippians 2:9-11; Hebrews 12:2; 1 Peter 3:22).
Jesus always prayed to the Father as a separate Person (Matthew 11:25; John 17). Jesus committed His Spirit to the Father and not to Himself (Luke 23:46). Jesus called God "My Father" 57 times (ex: see John 15:1; Revelation 2:27). Jesus said He did not come to do His own will and that He could not, and did not, do anything of Himself, but that of the Father who had sent Him and worked through Him (John 5:19,30; 6:38; 7:16-18; 8:26-40; 12:49-50).
God, the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is another Person, distinct from both the Father and the Son (John 5:32, 14:16-17, 26; 15:26; 16:7-15). He is symbolized as a separate person from Jesus (Revelation 1:4-5; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6). He was sent from the Father to endow Jesus with power (Acts 10:38; Isaiah 11:2; 42:1-7; 61:1-2).
The Holy Spirit is entirely God, the pre-existent Counselor and Comforter who lives inside every Born-Again Christian and will remain in them to help, guide, and change those who willingly want to be changed (Isaiah 40:13; 1 Corinthians 2:12; Psalm 139:7; Job 33:4; Romans 8:2; Galatians 5:22; John 14:17). He is not a ‘spirit guide,’ or ‘pure energy.’ Nor is He a 'ghost,' ‘spirit,’ or ‘phantom.’ He has a will, mind, and feelings with His personality (1 Corinthians 2:10-11; Ephesians 4:30; 1 Corinthians 12:11; Acts 16:6-11). He is not a raw power that exerts energy or the effluence of the eternal God that resonates through eternity. He is the third person of the Triune God (Genesis 1:2; Matthew 12:28, 31-32; 28:19; Acts 1:8).
The Holy Spirit is responsible for filling the Born-Again Christian daily with the power to serve and prepare them for the coming of the Lord. It is He who "began a good work," and He "will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus" (Philippians 1:6 NIV). It is His sole responsibility to sustain and keep the Born-Again Christian guiltless, keep them from stumbling, and finally present them blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy. He will never let them die, be thirsty again, leave, forsake, cast out, or drive them away, nor can anything grab hold of them to separate them from His love, because He is their guarantee of salvation (John 4:14, 6:37, 8:12, 10:27-29, 11:25-26; Romans 8:38-39; 1 John 2:1; Jude 1:24; 1 Corinthians 1:8).
God is totally trustworthy, as defined by His immutiable omnificent, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent attributes. All of Creation reveals the infinite perfection of God's wisdom (See Psalm 139).
OMNISCIENCE
God's omniscience is based on His authority because He is the supreme judge of all things and the ultimate standard of what is true and false. He knows what is true and is the very nature of truth because truth is what he is (John 14:6).
"By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything." (1 John 3:19-20 ESV)
It is inconceivable that He could be wrong or not know about anything past, present, or future. Everything He does has an intelligent purpose and a definite goal. His power and knowledge are universal. He knows His intentions and everything in Himself, His creation, and throughout history (Isaiah 42:9, 29:11; Jeremiah 1:5, 23:24; 1 Samuel 10:2; 1 Kings 13:1-4; 2 Kings 8:12; Psalm 139:1-4,147:5; Matthew 10:30; John 21:17; Acts 1:24, 2:23, 4:27-28; Romans 11:33-36; 1 Corinthians 2:11; Hebrews 4:12-13; 1 John 3:20).
There are no limitations to God's divine omniscience, and He accomplishes His will perfectly in the lives of human beings through its use. He knew before He spoke creation into existence the outcome of every possible creation scenario. He also created Angels and human beings who were perfectly free with moral responsibility and individual liberty of thought and action to make whatever choices they desire. Then, He foreordained the world according to His perfect sovereignty and foreknowledge.
Because God is omniscient, He knows, apart from observation, what choice a person will make independently from the actualization of that choice without it being contrary to fact. He knows the outcome of any possible event and of every free choice that could be made whether or not a certain event exists under specified conditions.
God knows all possible outcomes and retains His divine providence without hindering the libertarian freedom of humanity (Genesis 50:20). He has infinite and perfect knowledge of the past, present, and future because He lives outside of the time-space continuum. God has chosen to know everything. His omniscience affords Him the knowledge of all truth in every potential situation, whether before the beginning, at the ending, or in between under all possible interpretations of any component.
God knows every possible future and, in His infinite wisdom, has planned for every contingency. He knows what each person would do given any circumstance and arranges the world in such a way as to bring about His will using their free choices. Before God spoke the world into existence, He knew independently what a person would freely choose if placed in any possible circumstance or situation.
God also knows the outcome of every seemingly random event to bring about His ultimate will. He knows what human beings would choose independently from the materialization of that choice. He knows the outcome of every possible decision that will or could be made. In other words, He knows what free decisions people will make independently of His controlling decree. He knows from eternity past what a person would have done or would do in any hypothetical circumstance or situation, but He does not necessarily pronounce what will happen.
Jesus told Bethsaida that if He had come to Sodom and Gomorrah, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes. He knew this even though it did not happen because He knew what would happen and what could take place in any given circumstance (Matthew 11:21-24; Luke 10:13-14).
God knew what would happen if David remained in Keilah and what would happen if he did not (1 Samuel 23:1-14). God told Moses that the Israelites would forsake Him after they were delivered from Egypt (Deuteronomy 31:16-17).
God is a good God, and He would never actively bring about overt acts of evil, suffering, pain, or sin even though He has foreknowledge of evil acts (Deuteronomy 28:51-57; Proverbs 4:11; Jeremiah 38:17-18; Ezekiel 3:6-7; Matthew 12:7; 17:27; 23:27-32; 24:43, 26:24; Luke 4:24-44,16:30-31,22:67-68; John 15:22-24,18:36, 21:6; 1 Corinthians 2:8). God does not unilaterally or causally determine every outcome of any unforeseen event, as that would be at the expense of human freedom.
God can see and interact with everything that happens in our multi-dimensional universe. He can act at any time He chooses. He is invisible and cannot be seen unless He elects to reveal Himself in a three-dimensional form that human beings can see. He did that when Jesus "became flesh and made His dwelling among us" (John 1:14 NIV).
OMNIPRESENCE
"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 139:7-10 ESV)
According to the Bible, the infinite Majestic God is not some universal mind or consciousness that fills space and matter. He is omnipresent and not confined to three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. He can be in more than one place at a time.
God is able to act everywhere because He knows all things. He has access to all places and all secrets because He is the Infinite Creator, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe, intrinsic in His works and transcendent above them (Psalms 139).
God simultaneously dwells in a plurality of sanctuaries; in Heaven, on Earth, the Ark, Tabernacle, Mt. Zion, Temple, Holy Land, in Jesus, in the Church, in the assembly of His people, and in Heaven (Genesis 11:1-9; 18:1-33, 19:24; 21:17; 22:11; 28:12, 32:24-30; Exodus 24:11; 33:11-33, 10:35; 2 Samuel 6:2; 1 Kings 8:26-53; 2 Kings 19:15; Joshua 5:13-15; Judges 6:11-23; 13:3-25; 1 Chronicles 21:16-17; Job 42:5; Isaiah 6; Ezekiel 1:26-28; 10:1,20; 40:3; Daniel 7:9-14,10:5-10; Psalm 2:4, 3:4,11:4,20:2-6,26:8,33:13, 46:5,48:2,99:1:4,104:3; Isaiah 6:1,8:18,63:15,66:1; Joel 3:16,21; Amos 1:2, 9:6; 1 Samuel 26:19; Hosea 9:3; Matthew 5:34, 6:9; John 1:14; 2:19, 14:23; Acts 7:48,56-59; 17:28; Colossians 2:9; Romans 8:9,11; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; Ephesians 1:20, 2:21,22; 3:11; 2 Timothy 3:15; Hebrews 1:3,10:21; 1 Peter 2:5; Revelation 4:2-5; 5:1,5-7,11-14; 6:16; 7:9-17; 19:4; 21:3-5; 22:4).
The omnipresence of God is essential because His nearness and our communion with Him can be enjoyed everywhere and can save us from any place or anyone dangerous, as well as when a person calls out for salvation (Psalm 139:5-10; Isaiah 43:2).
The justice of God is also essential, and therefore, it is necessary for Him to punish sinners who do not trust in Jesus for salvation. God is present everywhere, including the place called hell, where people are removed from His presence (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 14:10).
Heaven provides blessing and wholeness not through being closer physically to God but by being in complete fellowship with Him. There is no fellowship with God in Ghenna, the place where those who reject Jesus will spend eternity. God is "present" in the sense that He knows what is happening there (Psalm 139:7-12). However, that does not mean that those who are imprisoned can have a relationship or communicate with Him (2 Thessalonians 1:7–9).
OMNIBENEVOLENCE
"The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness" (Exodus 34:6 ESV)
"For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations." (Psalm 100:5 ESV)
The Triune God is omnibenevolent, which means He is perfectly generous, kind, helpful, purely and absolutely all good, charitable, loving and pure in every thought, feeling, action, motive, thought or anything else about Him all the time and cannot create evil (Mark 10:18). For God to be God He must also be omnificent, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent (Genesis 1:31; Psalm 31:19,34:8,105:5,106:1,119:68, 135:3,145:9; Nahum 1:7; Mark 10:18; Luke 2:10; Romans 2:4, 8:28; Titus 3:4; Galatians 5:22; 1 Timothy 4:4; James 1:17; 2 Thessalonians 1:11). God proved His goodness by sending Jesus to die for us as the final sacrifice for the forgiveness of all our sins.
"…but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8 ESV)
OMNIFICENCE
The glory of God is best described as His beauty. He is omnificent and the magnificent, all-beautiful, creative God of everything. Every human being will see the beauty of something different than another. There is no established precedent or pattern of beauty that one can say God is like - and if there were - it would be God Himself.
Beauty is the possession and characteristic of God and is one of His distinctive qualities. It is what emphasizes the form in which He reveals Himself in the external manifestation of His presence and the quality of His greatness, authority, dignity, preeminence, power, perfection, and majesty.
"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in Heaven and Earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. Now, our God, we give you thanks and praise your glorious name." (1 Chronicles 29:11-13 NIV)
The Hebrew word "glory" used is 'tip'eret/tip'arah' and is a noun that means 'glory; beauty; ornament; distinction; pride.' It appears about 51 times in the Bible. The word represents 'beauty' in the sense of the characteristic enhancing a person's appearance as well as their rank as used about God to emphasize His renown and inherent "beauty" (Exodus 28:2; Isaiah 4:2, 62:3; Proverbs 4:9,16:31; Deuteronomy 26:19). The word glory also comes from the Hebrew word 'kabod' and the Greek word 'doxa,' which are most often translated throughout the Bible to convey God's wealth, the perfection of character, splendor, majesty, abundance, and honor, as well as to convey the ecstasy found in Heaven.
The word's root meaning denotes weight, heaviness, size, rarity, beauty, brilliance, brightness, desire, and adornment. This divine quality is beyond human understanding because:
"The LORD is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens. Who is like the LORD our God, the one who sits enthroned on high, who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?" (Psalm 113:4-6 NIV)
The Omnificence of God includes His character and nature, which obtain their infinite beauty from their relationship with each other. His love, wisdom, justice, power, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are beautiful (2 Thessalonians 1:9; Galatians 5:22-23). God is beautiful in all His ways. He relentlessly and lovingly pursues humanity, reaching out in romantic passion with nail-pierced hands.
It was the beauty of Jesus that caused the disciples to drop everything and follow Him (Matthew 4:19). It wasn't His looks or charisma that drew them to Him. It was His mystical beauty, the wondrous fragrance of love that emanates from Him and ever consumes those who desire to draw closer and closer as they take on His fragrance and His beauty (2 Corinthians 2:14).
God chose at times in the past to reveal His glory and perfection to human beings in a visible way, such as the pillar of cloud and fire, the deliverance of the Israelites at the parting of the Red Sea, and His glory in the Tabernacle and Temple because the Father desires to have an intimate relationship with every person (Exodus 13:21, 14; Leviticus 9:23-24; 1 Kings 8:11).
His original desire was for His Glory to always dwell with humankind. The first dwelling was a place of beauty where "God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground - trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food" (Genesis 2:9 NIV). And the last dwelling place is a city of beauty whose gates are "made of a single pearl," and the "great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass" (Revelation 21:21 NIV).
It is the veil of sin - the works of the flesh - that keeps humanity from seeing God's true beauty. Even the whole Earth sits under a curse (Genesis 8:20), and all of "creation groans together and travails in pain together" because of sin (Romans 8:22 - Darby). Just imagine how beautiful the new Heaven and Earth will be when the curse is finally removed! (Revelation 21:1-5). The Omnificent God longs for every person on this planet to come to know Him in deep intimacy.
OMNIPOTENCE
The Triune God is all-powerful over all things, times, and in all ways. He said, "Let there be…" and it was (Genesis 1:3,6,9). God spoke, and by the power of His word, everything was created from nothing (Also Psalm 33:6).
"I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted." (Job 42:2 ESV)
"And the LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD's hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not." (Numbers 11:23 ESV).
God's power is seen in the preservation of His creation. All life on earth would perish were it not for His continual provision of everything we need for food, clothing, and shelter, all from renewable resources sustained by His power as the preserver of man and beast (Psalm 36:6). God does everything that is in harmony with His Holy character (Numbers 23:19; Titus 1:2; Hebrews 6:18).
FREE WILL
Because of the gift of free will, people, as well as demons, can do evil, such as the killing of Jesus on the Cross. However, God restrains them or lets them go their way according to His plans and purposes (Daniel 2:21; Job 1:12,2:6; John 19:11).
The freedom given by God is not absolute, which is why a person cannot work at saving themselves or make themselves justified and holy before God. It is only by the divine grace of God, given through Jesus Christ, that a person can be truly set free from the slavery and bondage of sin and its eternal effects (Romans 6:20).
God's grace is unequivocally necessary for any action towards salvation. He does not create a world based upon the assessment of a person's choices that are freely made in a specific situation and circumstance and then creates the world based upon that evaluation. The sovereignty of God affords Him the knowledge of all truth in every potential situation and allows for His providential control and foreknowledge of multiple possibilities that every free will choice could bring or cause in just one world. God knows everything that could, will, or does happen. Before He spoke the world into existence, He knew independently what a person would freely choose if placed in any possible circumstance or situation, whether at the beginning, the end, or in between.
Human beings possess libertarian free will to choose or do anything because they are more than mere physical beings. It is a phenomenon of the present rather than the past. God does not want anyone to die an eternal death because of what they have done.
"…God our Savior,"… "wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth." (1 Timothy 2:4 NIV)
The Triune God wants everyone to accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior, repent of their rebellion and sin, and submit their life to Him as a free act of love. He gave them the freedom to make that choice.
When a person chooses to accept the free gift of salvation, God instantly chooses them out of the world of lost, guilty sinners. This choice was already made in eternity past for those who would call upon Him (Ephesians 1:4). The purpose of this choice is their perfect standing before Him because of what Jesus did on their behalf.
"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name." (John 15:19 NIV)
As a result of the price Jesus paid for the release from the bondage of sin, the Born-Again Christian no longer belongs to the world; they now belong to Jesus! The moment a person makes the choice to become a child of God, they are predestined to be conformed or molded into the likeness of Jesus.
"For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers." (Romans 8:29 NIV)
Jesus, God, the Son, proves He is omnipotent in the miracles of numerous healings, the feeding of the five thousand (Mark 6:30-44), and calming the storm (Mark 4:37-41). He stated that He had the power to lay down His life and power to take it up again (John 2:19) and to call upon 12 legions of angels to rescue Him during His trial if needed (Matthew 26:53). Yet, He offered Himself in humility in place of others (Philippians 2:1-11).
The ultimate display of the power of Jesus was raising Lazarus and Jairus's daughter from the dead (John 11:38-44; Mark 5:35-43). He also showed that He had control over life and death, which is what He came to destroy (1 Corinthians 15:22; Hebrews 2:14), and that He could bring guilty sinners into a right relationship with God. The Apostle Paul said:
"Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power may rest upon me" (2 Corinthians 12:9b ESV).
The Omni’s of God will be proclaimed by all the host of Heaven throughout eternity (Revelation 19:1). It is shown in us when our weaknesses are extreme, yet He holds us in a state of grace despite our sins and keeps us from falling (2 Timothy 1:12; Jude 24).
"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" (Ephesians 3:20 ESV)
