Suppose
an omniscient being told us the data * do * follow a straight line (maybe a flat one) plus normally distributed random noise.
I mean, honestly, what kind of bovine excrement
omniscient being designs a universe that obeys a set of rules (physics), but designs a sentient being that He will then cast into eternal torment at death — no matter how good the being was during its life — unless that being has faith in His son?
I'd really rather you didn't build multi million - dollar synagogues / churches / temples / mosques / shrines to my noodly goodness when the money could be better spent (take your pick): Ending poverty Curing diseases Living in peace, loving with passion, and lowering the cost of cable I might be a complex - carbohydrate
omniscient being, but I enjoy the simple things in life.
We're supposed to be comforted that an all - powerful,
omniscient being's master plan for humanity is — building character through the grieving process and gaining strength through suffering?
But, it is obviously impossible to have free will if there is
an omniscient being.
So, you point out that there are so many versions or ideas as to who or what God is and yet you automatically conclude that if there is a God that God would provide undisputable proof of existence as if you know what a supposed omnipotent and
omniscient being would do?
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.
Necessarily,
a omniscient being knows all truths; there is at no time a truth that an omniscient being (who exists at that time) does not know.
of course some people would try to resist at some point, regardless of the threats (though there will always be those who love living under the command of a seemingly omnipresent,
omniscient being.
Bob Bales, «
an omniscient being would allow the possibility of evil so that those who do good do so by choice and not by force.»
Your logical contradiction is based on your judgement as to how
an omniscient being would behave.
An omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence.
But I've never offended some all - powerful
omniscient being that created the Universe.
Water, If you think a god is guiding evolution wouldn't you expect an omnipotent,
omniscient being to do a better job?
I am amazed that people can't see the obvious, the bible is not a timeless book of laws from
an omniscient being, it is a man made docu ment based on the moral, technological, and scientific state of knowledge millennia ago.
One is
an omniscient being capable of bringing joy and hope to all 7.1 billion persons on this earth... and the other is God.
Surely,
an omniscient being is capable of sending us clear messages that could not or would not be «lost in translation».
The omniscient being doesn't know when this big event is going to happen.
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?
It is not worthy of
an omniscient being.
fred, Every person can have 100 % free will and
an omniscient being would still know the outcome.
An omniscient being already knows every free choice that will be made by every human that will ever live.
An omniscient being would know everything that would happen through all time right at the instant of creation.
If these words were from
an Omniscient Being, there would be NO questions, NO mistranslations, NO misinterpretations.
Let's take responsibility for our own actions and stop looking for answer from an invisible, impossibly
omniscient being that allows death and destruction to happen daily basis.
More arrogant that believing an infinite,
omniscient being cars about your prayers?
Attempting to pervert the facts, which is only possible because a human being is not
omniscient is like attempting to pervert creation.
So, unless you've become omniscient I'm not sure I put a whole lot of stock in your «argument».
I'm not entirely sure that omnipotent and
omniscient are mutually exclusive, but omnipotent is self - contradictory.
Being both omnipotent and
omniscient is impossible, ergo, as described, the christian god can't exist.
Being
OMNISCIENT is one of the attributes Christians insist upon for their god.
The oldest point of view,
omniscient is the all - knowing, god perspective and on the same continuum as third person point of view.
But
omniscient is the norm in epic fantasy.
Near -
omniscient beings live in the space above the Mushroom Kingdom, maintaining the Star Road, a literal chain of stars responsible for making wishes come true.
Not exact matches
What Facebook means
is that the algorithm chooses what to show you — as though the algorithm
was some kind of
omniscient entity, and not a thing programmed by flawed human
beings.
It
was easier to believe that everything
was under control when we got our news through one or two professional media outlets, manned by avuncular TV anchors and seemingly
omniscient columnists and editorial writers.
I
'm not
omniscient and I don't think I
'm smarter than Wall Street.
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?
If God
is omnipotent,
omniscient, and omnipresent — The Alpha and Omega — then He
is indeed love.
If god
is omniscient, he would know the future with absolute certainty; but his «omnipotence» would
be rendered powerless if he ever tried to alter the future, due to his «omniscience».
Instead, I understand that prayer
is for my benefit (
omniscient God already knows what I have to say), a way for me to organize my thoughts and priorities.
To answer it, you would need to
be God (i.e.
omniscient) and therefore invalidating your premise.
The underlying supposition
is a God that created us knowing we
were sinners and disbelievers (He
is omniscient and omnipotent), and then punishing us eternally for creating us that way.
You would have to
be omniscient in order to understand the workings of God.
Wikipedia: It
is not logically possible for god to
be both omnipotent and
omniscient.
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 not, it
is not
omniscient.)
If God
is omniscient, he must already know how he
is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence.
if god
is omniscient, he knows who will accept his son (himself) as a savior before they
are born.
don't give me the bullspit freewill argument, because free will and an
omniscient god
are incompatible.