Sentences with phrase «even omniscient»

His line of reasoning is that, until they actually occur, all future events and their alternatives are merely possible, not actual; and even an omniscient God can not know as actual what in fact is not actual but only possible.

Concerning the former claim, Craighead proposes that even an omniscient being could be expected to know all positive possibilities only, not the sole non-positive but still meaningful possibility of absolute nothingness; in addition, he accuses Hartshorne of inconsistency for holding that while neither the future nor the existence of nothing is knowable, the former is possible while the latter is not.

â $ œBut the Christianity of the peasants Farmer talked to had a different flavor: â $ ˜the shrewd conviction that the rest of the world was wrong for screwing them over, and that someone, someone just and perhaps even omniscient, was keeping scoreâ $ (p. 78).

From a philosophical perspective, there are numerous other options, including middle knowledge, and knowledge of counterfactuals, and even the omniscient knowledge of all possible future events without knowledge of which future event will actually occur.

Not exact matches

Still, people lined up to get even a hint of what marketing will look like when perfectly objective, omniscient machines do it.

An omniscient god would certainly know about unborn children, even prior to his creation of earth.

I am just pointing out that IF there were a god with even sort of the resume Jehovah has been said to have, ie omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent, and if this god somehow cranked out a human son, that son wouldn't act like the drunken alpha ape described in Revelations.

The point is you claim that your god is omniscient and omnipotent so therefore knows of amputees and could heal them, you also claim that prayer works (even though an omniscient god should be aware of all problems).

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

It is not even true that the omniscient must know details of the future, unless it can be proved, against Bergson, Whitehead, Peirce, James, and many others, that the future has any details to know.3 (Of course it will be detailed, but this does not imply that it has detailed will - be's as parts of itself now...)

According to your story, this omniscient «God» knew this even before it created these folks... and created them anyway - whattaguy!

At the very least, we know that Jesus was not immortal, omnipresent, or omniscient (Luke 2:52; Matthew 24:36) as a man, even though Jesus is all these things as God.

Simon, your omniscient god already determined what your future would be before you even acquired consciousness.

If God were omniscient and infinite and a whole range of other superlatives, but did not care about us, then God would not be the God we worship and might not even merit the name of God.

for most people (appearently) its just easier to believe an omniscient, omnipotent being wished it to happen... and that hes looking down on us, interceding on our behalf — even when doing so would act against others in the faith.

But if a man believes in the omnipotent, omniscient and loving God his life will be destiny in an even deeper sense: for it is wholly borne by the power of God without which nothing, not even man's own free act, can exist; his life as a whole and in all its details is always lived before the omniscient God of love.

In short, if you are an Omnipotent and Omniscient deity how can you be jealous (even using your definition) without appearing insecure and possibly phobic?

But just because an omniscient God would have the ability to fully assure each of us of His existence doesn't mean that He will, or that He should, or that it's even be in our best interest for Him to do so.

But he does say that God is not omniscient in the traditional sense, and that even a divine purpose can not be simply immutable.)

He is an omniscient One who knows every thought from a distance, who knows plainly the very path of each thought, even when it eludes a man's own consciousness.

Especially since he is supposedly omniscient even in the context of free will.

If god is omnipotent and omniscient, then would he be capable of creating a boulder so huge and heavy that not even he could lift it?

It is for this reason that God is said to be «omniscient» regarding even matters that, from our time - bound perspective, have not «happened» yet.

Some athletes even imagine that their abusive coach is omniscient.

But even the most assiduous prosecutors are not omniscient.

The shots linger and observe, omniscient but intimate, obliterating the notion that a camera is even there.

Your 22 * points * if correct (or even one of them) mean either that you are omniscient and know more than said world experts.

Because in the final analysis, the «honeybee algorithm» beat out the best algorithms in tests and even outperformed a hypothetical «omniscient algorithm» that could predict future traffic in advance when the conditions were highly variable - a not uncommon case on the internet.

Even though I am 1,000 miles away from Chicago and anything but omniscient, I know all this thanks to the very clever mash - up, TweetChicago.