A god - sim, From Dust puts the fluxing fate of a archipelago
in your omniscient hands, with the island's lone tribe of nomadic villagers at the peril of landslides, volcanic eruptions and flood.
I won't read any contemporary fiction written
in omniscient POV — it's too confusing and almost always amateurish.
In which David Wain, he of Wet Hot American Summer fame, takes on the life of Doug Kenney (played by Will Forte and,
in his omniscient - narrator state, Martin Mull), a Harvard man who'd co-create the National Lampoon, co-write Animal House and inject much - needed vulgar irreverence into American comedy before mysteriously falling off a cliff in 1980.
Your main question: Since God is Omniscient, and all things begin
in an Omniscient Mind, sin began in God's Mind: It all depends on what your meaning of sin is, the acts or the nature of it.
In fact, Twain's Satan comes on like a Calvinist who has lost faith
in an omniscient and omnipotent Deity and thus may be a reflection of Twain's own distaste for the Calvinist strain in American Protestantism.
This is, of course, what is meant by panentheism: not that God is in everything — though in a secondary sense he is — but that the primary relation of God to other things is that all things have their becoming
in the omniscient mind of God.
you believe
in an omniscient god who knows whether we will accept jeebus as a savior, but then punishes them for eternity if they do not believe in him.
Not exact matches
Indeed,
in a conversation I had last week with journalists at a well - known newspaper, reporters there expressed unease that Google might not just freeze their files, but use its
omniscient view to identify their sources.
I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE
Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children
in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children
in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?
You would have to be
omniscient in order to understand the workings of God.
An omnipotent,
omniscient god that supposedly created the universe and all
in it, would not have needed to create evil, disease, and illness
in the first place and would have the power to eliminate evil, disease, and illness if it chose to.
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.
If God is
omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent, etc then the amount of knowledge required to be aware and know something like the magnitude of the possibilities I brought up would be immense, much more
in line with the characteristics attributed to God.
When an omnipotent,
omniscient god could have dealt with the problem
in a much more immediate way, does it really make sense to wait a couple of decades for the child to be born, grow up, and start a ministry?
amazing how many mistakes there were
in a supposedly perfect creation by a perfect,
omniscient, omnipotent deity.
Since an
omniscient God already knows everything, playing it out
in the physical world is completely redundant.
What has changed is that we are no longer the gods of the Victorian image,
omniscient and decreeing; but
in the new theological image, with freedom our first principle, not authority....
They believe that they are acting
in the interest of an
omniscient, omnipotent being that they love.
Your god sends a piece of himself to earth
in human form, knowing
in advance (
omniscient and all) that he'll live, be crucified, die, then he would resurrect himself
in human form, then bugger off to heaven to rejoin himself.
Besides, why would an omnipotent,
omniscient being create an entire universe, fill it with his children and then condemn them to burn forever for not believing
in him, when he has seen fit to utter not a single word to any of them?
- If, for instance, you believe
in an omnipotent and
omniscient god, you believe
in one that has contradictory and therefor mutually exclusive traits.
Likewise one would have to have all knowledge and
in that knowledge God was not any part of that knowledge (
omniscient).
Consider this... if your «god» actually exists, and is as
omniscient as you think it is, then it will know that your «just
in case» belief is phony, and then you're toast.
If god knows what He will do
in the future and because He is Omnipotent, does something else, then He is not
omniscient.
He is a good, omnipotent,
omniscient God, who remains
in control of His creation, over which He will pronounce ultimate judgment.
I am not defending belivers of invisible friends... just saying it's a little early
in time, considering our limited knowledge, to claim that humans are
omniscient.
If there is an
omniscient, powerful... God, would he able to appear
in supernatural manifestations?
Many places
in the Bible it states that lying is a sin and yet we tell our children that this is «Jesus's» Birthday and that Santa (SATAN) Clause is real and is omnipresent, and
omniscient and brings gifts!!
And Hartshorne does just that: «The eminent form of sympathetic dependence can only apply to deity; for this form can not be less than an
omniscient sympathy, which depends upon and is exactly colored by every nuance of joy or sorrow anywhere
in the world (DR 48).
Surely, an
omniscient being is capable of sending us clear messages that could not or would not be «lost
in translation».
Along the way there have been some pretty horrific issues with theology (war, crusades, more war, etc) Anyway, the answer is no, I do not believe
in any kind of
omniscient deity or theological system but I don't push it out on people either.
You would need to admit that if your argument is valid and that
in order to reject belief
in something, we would need to be
omniscient, than you'd have to admit that they should also believe
in Thor because to NOT believe would mean that YOU are
omniscient and see that Thor is not
in that set of knowledge you possess.
In the particular case at hand, p is God is omnipotent,
omniscient, and wholly good and q is there is evil.
Where was your
omniscient, omnipotent desert god Yahweh / Jesus / Jehovah / etc to prevent the attack
in the place?
I'm
omniscient, so I put the numbers
in a spreadsheet and here is the result
in scientific notation: 7.326124 E +3204.
IF god exists and is omnipotent and
omniscient, do you think I could «fool» him into thinking I believe when
in my mind I KNOW he does not exist?
If you only said you believed
in an omnipotent,
omniscient, omnipresent «friend», that might be regarded as a mild delusion, dismissible as an eccentricity.
But your god has shown time and time again
in your book that he is neither omnipotent or
omniscient.
From Plato onwards, philosophers have sought to escape from the anxiety of personal freedom by searching for certainty and objectivity
in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of unchanging Platonic Forms, or
in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or
in an eternal life with an
omniscient, loving, supreme Being.
At the end of this offspring's life it shows up, attracts unwanted attention and commits suicide by cop
in order to atone for the «original» sin that its own creation committed (why this
omniscient god didn't see that coming is...... anybody's guess).
My reply: The Christian god, being
omniscient and omnipotent, would know exactly how much of Himself to reveal, how much evidence would be necessary, so that everyone would believe
in Him.
In fact, an
omniscient god can't actually decide to do anything!
They say that He is
omniscient, that nothing takes place
in the world which is not
in accordance with His prior knowledge.
Jesus wasn't omnipresent during the incarnation, He wasn't
omniscient during the incarnation, and He didn't engage
in «genocide» during the incarnation.
Primewonk Your statement actually validates Gods omnipotent or
omniscient attributes and why amputees do not regenerate limbs
in response to prayer.
So, unless you've become
omniscient I'm not sure I put a whole lot of stock
in your «argument».
In this context, the Creator has been considered to be a Supreme Being, omnipotent and
omniscient.
If agape is operative
in such finite processes, then the creator could not be omnipotent or
omniscient.
Faith is nothing but a cop out to believe something without evidence, and has nothing to do with whether freewill can exist
in conjunction with something that is
omniscient.
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.