Required reading 6: God is Everywhere

Nathan Bloom: 8 December 2009
Landscapes of the Sacred

Lane brings up a very intriguing point on page 242. He interprets what it means for God to be omnipresent. Lane states that if God is here; lets say in this room then He cannot be here because he is elsewhere at the same time. God is here as He is elsewhere too, so how can this be? Although this is but a small portion of the required reading, I found that it ties in with other concepts throughout the text. This concept is a direct representation of the Lane's fourth axiom. God is everywhere both inwards to a specific Sacred place and in others, but at the same time. Lane's discussion of Religious place is fascinating. He says that religion travels quickly and reaches everywhere but still seeks 'Place'. His example is the Christians seeking the promised land. As much as place is important, imagination and what you do in this place is what makes it sacred and Holy.