ABSTRACT
The idea seems to be that, for any place one chooses, God is there. There are two suppositions lurking here. The rst is that God really is present at or located at various places. The second is that he is present in this way everywhere. The latter is the thesis that God is omnipresent. There is a hint of a third idea in this passage, however, which makes the claim that God is omnipresent problematic. The psalmist asks about the location of God’s spirit; but God is a spirit. How can we understand a spirit, something immaterial, being present in space? Perhaps we have an intuitive idea of what it is for a physical object to be present or to be located at a place or in a region of space. But what sense can be made of something non-physical, something that neither is nor has a body, being present at a place?
