The Supernatural God

The concept of a “Supernatural God”, has been highly debated for hundreds of years by various groups within the Christian faith.   As Christians, our faith is based on the doctrine that God has three distinct attributes:

Omnipotent - having ownership and authority over absolutely everything (in all of creation)

Omnipresent - being present everywhere; and at the same time

Omniscient – having complete, unlimited knowledge and perceiving all things

The Supernatural God is Omnipotent

This is, perhaps, the easiest of the three attributes of a Supernatural God to answer: Yes, God is omnipotent! There is even a verse that, in the King James Version and New King James Version, uses this very word: “Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!” (Revelation 19:6).

The Greek word translated as “Omnipotent” here is pantokrator[1], meaning “All ruling” or (as it is more frequently translated) “Almighty.” When we say God is “Almighty,” we are stating our belief in His authority and rulership over all creation, and the Bible is firm in declaring this fact. Even though Satan is now the “god of this age” (2 Corinthians 4:4), it belongs to him only because Almighty God has granted it to Him: “And the devil said to Him, ‘All this authority [over all the kingdoms of this world] I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish’” (Luke 4:6 NKJV).

It is God who ultimately reigns in the universe, and all legitimate authority must derive from Him. If we let Scripture tell us of God’s authority, we must agree that He has all authority to do all His pleasure (Isaiah 46:10–11), and to see to the fulfilment of His plans without fail. If we accept the Scriptural definition of “almighty”- and as Christians, we must accept no other – we can rightly call God omnipotent. Indeed, Christ clearly says that “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).

The Supernatural God is Omnipresent

We need to ask ourselves…Is there any physical location in this universe where we can hide from the presence of God? The answer, according to Scripture, is a resounding “No!” In fact, King David posed this question directly, asking: “Where can I go from Your Spirit? [where can I flee from Your presence?] If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell [the grave], behold, 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).

David answers the question beautifully: it is futile to search for a place to hide from the presence of God.  In this sense, God’s infallible Word shows us that He is omnipresent -within His vast creation, there is no place where you can hide from His presence.

The Supernatural God is Omniscient

The Word of God tells us that God does perceive all things, which means that no fact can be hidden from His knowledge. As King David recognized: “Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You” (Psalm 139:12). God sees all things, and nothing can be hidden from His knowledge – not even the secret intentions of the heart (Psalm 44:21). In fact, He understands our own intentions better than we do (cf. Jeremiah 17:9-10; Hebrews 4:12). As Paul explains, “there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account” (Hebrews 4:13).

The Trinity of Creation

In Genesis 1:1, we read that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”.  In this single sentence, we find the three basic elements, the “building blocks of the entire universe” (“natural realm”), namely: time, space and matter.  Since God created the “natural realm”, it is only logical to conclude that God exists outside our frame of reference, outside our natural realm, thereby making God, Supernatural.

It is interesting to point out, that even the Meriam-Webster Dictionary proves this conclusion, by defining the word, “supernatural” as:

“relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe…and departing from what is usual or normal especially so as to appear to transcend the laws of nature”[2]

For decades, astronomers and scientists have been looking, for what it calls “the God particle” or “the invisible atom”, to “prove” that the universe came into existence by itself, without a Creator.  Stephen Hawking (2001), who has in the mean time given up his search for the “illusive God particle”, once wrote that if scientists could find the most fundamental laws (building blocks) of nature “then we should know the mind of God”.

God has provided us with undisputed evidence; not only of His existence, but also that He is a Supernatural God, the Creator of heaven and earth.  God has revealed Himself to the entire universe as a Supernatural God, through the “Trinity of Creation”.  Romans 1:20 says, “For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse”.  Although the word trinity is not found in the Bible, it is a word used to describe the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  1 John 5:7 reads, “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”

God’s Creation consists of time, space and matter.  It is a trinity, not composed partly of space, partly of matter, and partly of time.  A trinity is not a trio or a triad, but a tri-unity, with each part comprising the whole, yet all three required to make the whole. Thus, the universe is all Time, all Space, and all Matter (including energy as a form of matter).

In his paper, The Tri-Universe, Henry Morris writes:

“All three components of the three parts of Creation are trinities:  Time consists past, present, and future.  Space is comprised of three dimensions, depth, width and height with each dimension permeating all space.  “Matter is unseen, omnipresent energy, manifesting itself in various forms of measurable motion, then experienced in corresponding phenomena.”

The conclusion is simple:  God has revealed Himself to all of creation, in the natural, as a Supernatural God, through the “Trinity of Creation”.  God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), who is Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient, created (through His Supernatural Power) “in the beginning (time: past, present and future), the heaven (space: length, width and weight) and the earth (matter: energy, motion and phenomenon).  The fundamental building blocks of nature, namely atoms (mass, energy and particles), also consists of three components, namely neutrons (composed of three quarks), protons (also composed of three quarks) and the electron, which is one of three kinds of subatomic lepton particles, namely muons, taus and electrons.