We come to know God by carefully and intentionally paying attention to God's action in our world.
Theologian Thomas Oden makes the following list in light of trying to understand the Presence of God.
* God is naturally present in every aspect of the natural order.
* God is actively present in a different way in every event in history.
* God is in a special way attentively present to those who call upon God's name.
* God is judicially present in moral awareness, through conscience.
* God is bodily present in the incarnation of Jesus Christ, the son of God.
* God is mystically present in the Eucharist.
* God is sacredly present and becomes known in special places where God chooses to meet us.
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