He was and was here in the flesh. Nevertheless, this world is not His permanent residence.
"but ineffably interfaces with it, at Will, via what Newton called the sensorium Dei. This sensorium suggests to my mind a sort of universal field that mediates divine Presence. But then again, God doesn't need anything like a field to facilitate His acts. Or so it seems to me. Yet perhaps Newton, being a scientist, simply needed to think and speak in such terms."
No function is possible w/o some underlying physics to provide for it's realization. That's something Newton understood.
Of course this is true, spunkets. But what really fascinates me is that you and I and daffodils and rocks and rabbits and bees, etc., etc., are all made up of the identical physical "stuff" (particles and fields) — yet all these objects are different. It's clear to me that matter and its underlying physics cannot fully account for this. IOW, the universe does not "reduce" to one single principle, matter. There's an intangible "something else" at work in it as well. Or so it seems to me.