Is God Omniscient?
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Re: Is God Omniscient?
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I'm just as confused as anyone in this matter on God being omniscient.
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It does not really explain it. Nature takes it course no matter what. And there are things you'd expect not to happen and for God to prevent if he knew it was going to happen before hand.Yaksha Shetty wrote: ↑26 Jun 2020, 12:39 Yes God is Omniscient. And that is why everything around us works the way it works.
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I agree. The author was writing about God in a different perspective. He portrayed God as a loving father who makes mistakes, regrets things ( the bible actually registered God having a regret) and is surprised by the actions if his creation. That is a way of looking at God as a father, but not entirely as a God.Elvis Best wrote: ↑27 Jun 2020, 13:19 In the book, I think what the author tried to do was to humanise God. God was portrayed as a being who could also make mistakes. But this goes contrary to our believe that God is omniscient.
It's a different way to look at God, and I think what the author was trying to do was to challenge our former theology about God.
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I think the main reason God does not so much interfere with certain things happening on earth is because he had set the earth in motion and for nature to take it's course. He also gave man free will which he won't interfere with. Letting these two work out on their own, evil is bound to happen.yosek123 wrote: ↑27 Jun 2020, 17:07 I saw this portrayal as a variation on the "Problem of Evil," a paradox presented by Epicurus and David Hume. Hume postulates: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then from whence comes evil?" In this book, God does not seem to be omniscient, since he is surprised by some of the actions. He is not, however, malevolent as the quote may suggest since he does govern.
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If he is omniscient, shouldn't he had known that they would disobey him? He should know on which day and through what means. The probable explanation is that he knew but would not interfere with their free will.
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Exactly! It's the free will tht accounts for God's surprise. Man has a choice, his decisions to choose between good and evil cannot be interfered with.
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It's the author's point of view it communicated anyways.
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