So if you think about God having the
attribute of omniscience in this way it makes sense that God would know the outcomes of every possible choice from a decision that you or I make.
Mass surveillance similarly promises a
sort of omniscience, «knowledge of good and evil,» and with it an opportunity to bring order and peace to the world.
If you look at the
idea of omniscience as a kind of «Tree» like structure then it makes more sense.
But itâ $ ™ s not thought to be the
product of omniscience for the reasons Sam states nor un-ordinary for the presence of things Sam is looking for.
God is said to hold «the ideal forms apart in equal, conceptual realization of knowledge,» — so that «as concepts, they are grasped together in the
synthesis of omniscience.
Consider that Jesus learned and displayed
lack of omniscience, aren't you forced to say that YHWH isn't omniscient?
More accurately, their illiteracy is spiritual, and their
kind of omniscience brings a peculiarly modern anguish to the problematic knowledge of good and evil.
I just hope and pray that you share the same conviction
of the omniscience of God that I do and what the Bible teaches.
Moreover, there are unexplored questions about the problem of evil and the neoclassical
concept of omniscience.
Whether or not this year yields similar results is a
matter of omniscience which I will not pretend to have.
=============== Summary: Other than your comment about God being constrained by time when He is within our space / time (which was addressed in point # 1 above), the remainder of your comments had to do with objections that you have with respect to God's actions, nothing to do with the
traits of omniscience and omnipotent being mutually exclusive, which was your original data point for the impossibility of God to exist.
@Laughing: If you read the Genesis story, it does not strike one as a story of a meticulous Designer who used some
form of omniscience to look into the future and predict what was going to happen.
And frankly, the fairy tale of «heaven» - if indeed it is a fairy tale - is a lot less dangerous than the fairy
tale of omniscience that this man lives.
In the
areas of omniscience, theodicy and omnipresence, divine relativity appears to have the potential to make significant contributions.
They suspect that Jesus» going to the Father can be consummated without his death, and they decide that he did indeed come from God
because of his Omniscience.
In the hands of the theologians this trait has often been intellectualized at the divine level into the
qualities of omniscience and foreordination.
I encourage you to hang in there because I believe the point I'll be making hits on one of the most fundamental mistakes made in the church tradition regarding the
nature of omniscience and offers one of the strongest philosophical arguments for the open view:
So Hartshorne's distinction between possibility and actuality falls within the knowable, or better, within the
content of omniscience.
I realize that Calvinism is correct on the
subject of the omniscience of God that He does know who will be saved or not (Job 34:21 - 22) and He chooses and elects them for His service but going as far as saying that God makes the choice for their salvation can never come into agreement with John 3:216.
I must so bring to fruition the root of goodness that all beings find the utmost joy, unheard of joy, the
joy of omniscience.
It is impossible to eliminate ANY options without the
gift of omniscience — which none of us have.
William Austin asks whether humanity and divinity can be thought of as complementary models of Christ.2 Each model limits the use of the other (e.g. from Christ's humanity we can not make the inference of sinfulness, and from his divinity we can not make the
inference of omniscience).
It is interesting to note, therefore, that an increasing number of advertisers, particularly the multi-national conglomerates, are presenting themselves in terms whose double meanings have religious
dimensions of omniscience (all - knowledge) and omnipotence (all - power), such as
I wonder if I only take note and mark them as special in order to feel a
rush of omniscience, a weak inflation of my ego.
2014 has already given us a similar premise of a relatively ordinary human developing god - like
powers of omniscience and near omnipotence in Transcendence, a film that Lucy has many conceptual similarities to, including the casting of Morgan Freeman in a supporting role.
This dichotomy, of aesthetic simplicity paired with layered states of narrative, not unlike a film still, is a
veil of omniscience that speaks through Davis» work.
Installation
view of omniscience and oblivion (Barcelona) installed at Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona in 2014
The industry's spending up to the 2014 price crash suggests that investors can not assume this
level of omniscience.
What's in view here, however, is not really the divine
attribute of omniscience, but the experiential knowledge gained by Jesus as he lived, died and was resurrected.
Shows how much they know: I'm woefully short of the
sort of omniscience I had hoped for, and I've... [more]
The «
synthesis of omniscience» is described as including «all possibilities of physical value conceptually, thereby holding the ideal forms apart in equal, conceptual realization of knowledge» (RM 147).