Sentences with phrase «own omniscience»

And that, says Joanna Piros, a Vancouver - based communications coach who teaches at Sauder School of Business, makes people leery of those who profess omniscience.

The ever - increasing omniscience of internet giants like Facebook and Google has put many watchdog groups and civil rights lobbyists on red - alert.

But omniscience isn't necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake.

Jesus had to show his work, omniscience or not.

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».

@David Johnson If «knowledge is power» as the academic world loves to instill omniscience justify omnipotence?

Incidentally, it has not escaped the notice of logicians that omniscience and omnipotence are mutually incompatible.

That said, though, I also disagree with your throwing away of human concepts such as omniscience.

Inherent Omniscience — the ability to know anything that one chooses to know and can be known.

Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about a character including thoughts, feelings, life and the universe, etc..

Total Omniscience — actually knowing everything that can be known.

Wikipedia: Another pair of incompatible properties is omniscience and either indeterminacy or free will.

As far as omniscience being incompatible with omnipotence, I'm not really clear on what your argument was there.

Omniscience concerning the past and present (properly defined relative to Earth) is not a problem, but omniscience regarding the future implies it has been determined.

Your point about the omniscience of God assumes a linear knowledge of the future.

C. Omniscience, omnipotence and free will are not mutually exclusive

@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.

I have struggled for years to reconcile God's omniscience with man's free will.

Omniscience of God allows only the optimal timing of Jesus entry.

It would be a free will choice, it's just that the omniscient one already knows, that's what omniscience is.

Omniscience rules out free will.

Gods omniscience allows Him to know what we will do by the exercise of our own free will.

We can «know» with a lesser or greater degree of probability, but, without the attribute of omniscience, the human intellect will always have its limitations.

Omniscience and omnipotence are mutually exclusive.

Even if we disallow god's omniscience, free will does not explain floods, disease, birth defects, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc., that god either causes or allows.

David Griffin points out that while Plantinga is indeed an incompatibilist with regard to divine control and human freedom, he remains a compatibilist with regard to omniscience and freedom (ER 82).

Why should God's omniscience and omnipotence obligate him to prevent us from doing bad things, thereby violating our free choice?

He was a literal god with literal omniscience who already knew he'd just revert to godhood after shedding a VERY temporary mortal cloak.

It's because the Son of God became flesh and emptied himself of his omniscience.

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.

(In philosophical language: divine omniscience does not imply human determination).

-- God's omniscience allows Him to know who is going to receive the gospel and who will reject it and thereby sovereign election is preordained.

To «know all that exists» is, in one sense, to have perfect knowledge, it is literal omniscience (provided possibilities are also known as such, as a special class of existences or, at least, of realities).

Rather, we find the ground of God's omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence in Jesus» «being there for others».

29 Concomitantly, God's omniscience is not subject to alteration by what occurs in time: «God's knowledge, as omnipotent knowledge, is complete in its range, the one unique and all - embracing knowledge.»

In this freedom from self, says Bonhoeffer, is to be found all that we can know of God's omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

2:7), and on the other hand we have the gospel portraits of a Jesus who manifests his divinity in his miracles, omniscience, and mysterious elusiveness, and the similar description of him in Acts as «Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs» (Acts 2:22).

God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: forgiveness, Greg Boyd, love, omniscience, sin, Theology of God

Other concepts are also discussed: The meaning of the Word «God, Monotheism, «God» defined, God's existence, Polytheism, Arguments for existence of God, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Immanence and Transcendence, Creation, and God as personal.

Retribution by the State has its limits because the State, unlike God, enjoys neither omniscience nor omnipotence.

To imagine him, with divine Omniscience, deliberately translating his message into the language of a world - view he knew to be false would make him a figure so artificial and unreal as to be neither credible nor attractive.

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?

The divine omnipresence means the divine Love's universal action; the divine omniscience means the divine Love's awareness of the depths and heights of possibility; the divine transcendence means the divine Love's utter inexhaustibility; the divine immanence means the divine Love's unfailing presence.

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

Suppose the usual religious ideas of omniscience, omnipotence, and holiness or supreme righteousness be accepted.

But the kenosis doctrine reminds us that although Jesus was God, he really did empty himself of his omnipotence and omniscience.

The redefinition of omnipotence and omniscience provide the groundwork for process thought's unique treatment of theodicy, the question of how the concept of an all powerful yet loving God can be reconciled with the existence of evil in the world.

Liddon was slightly uneasy about the verse in which Jesus said that only the Father knew the date of the End, but claimed that «the knowledge infused into the human soul of Jesus was ordinarily and practically equivalent to omniscience».17

The divine attributes of omnipotence and omniscience were to be ascribed to the incarnate Lord.

Two of the traditional attributes of God, omnipotence and omniscience, are reinterpreted in process thought.