Solomon said of God:
"The heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house that I have builded?"[A]
[Footnote A: I Kings viii:27.]
Paul declares that God is "not far from every one of us; for in him we live and move and have our being."[A]
[Footnote A: Acts xvii:26-28.]
4. Limitations of Foregoing Revelations to Omnipresence: These declarations go at least as far as to establish the omnipresence of God, not of his bodily, but of his spiritual presence; but they do not quite express the conception presented in the word immanence which I have said equals the attribute of omnipresence plus divine power, and act. It was left for our modern revelations to present that idea. This is done in the revelation which first declares that "the elements"—having reference to the elements of the material world—"are eternal;" that "spirit and element inseparably connected receive a fulness of joy;" that "the elements are the tabernacle of God."[A] That is, in some way, God is immanent, ever present and everywhere present, in the universe.[B]
[Footnote A: Doc. and Cov., Sec. xciii:33-35.]
[Footnote B: The Universe: It may be well to bring before the mind of the student a brief definition of this term "universe," in which we are saying that God is immanent, in order that we may appreciate somewhat at least the largeness of things with which we are dealing. I take the definition from Haeckel:
"(a) The extent of the universe is infinite and unbounded; it is empty in no part, but everywhere filled with substance.
"(b) The duration of the world (i. e. Universe) is equally infinite and unbounded; it has no end; it is eternity." (Riddle of the Universe, p. 242.) And in this infinite and eternal universe, God, in some way, is everywhere present and potentially or actually active—immanent.]