Not exact matches
As far as
omniscience being incompatible with omnipotence, I'm not really clear on what your argument was
there.
It seems to me that
omniscience is a Divine, not a human, quality and as long as
there is something that I don't know I WILL have questions.
Rather, we find the ground of God's omnipotence,
omniscience, and omnipresence in Jesus» «being
there for others».
If
there is / were a God (capital G) who rules the world in his
omniscience and power, how would you like him to communicate with humanity?
Even so, Schleiermacher surrendered very little, and his own consciousness's appropriation of God's being, «in relation to us» of course, included and emphasized the traditional attributes of omnipotence, eternity, omnipresence, and
omniscience.5 And for him, «immutability» is already contained within the notion of God's eternity.6 Causality within the entire system of nature can be exhaustively accounted for by God's causal activity.7 Following the lead of Aquinas, Schleiermacher declared that
there is no distinction between potential and actual in God.8
My results regarding divine relativity are tentative, but
there are already ramifications for the attributes of
omniscience and omnipresence as well as for the problem of theodicy.
He posits, for example, that Jesus in his
omniscience knew that
there were smaller seeds than the mustard seed, but nevertheless used «this facet of the culture of the people to whom he was speaking as a vehicle for conveying the cargo of revelational truth.
From an aesthetic standpoint,
there is a certain economy to process
omniscience.
Moreover,
there are unexplored questions about the problem of evil and the neoclassical concept of
omniscience.
If
omniscience exists, then one can not actually make a choice which wasn't already known to be inevitably made; if one could, then
there's no
omniscience.
Omniscience in a supernatural creator also brings up a whole host of other questions depending on the creator that you think is
there.
Omniscience is a Divine, not a human attribute and as long as
there is something that I do not know I WILL have questions.
Chris,
there is nothing about God's
omniscience that precludes free will, nothing at all.
Despite the Xbox One's Kinect - powered
omniscience, it's easy to forget the thing's actually
there.