Diogenes wrote: ↑Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:18 am
Question for debate, "Is the god of the Bible omniscient?"
According to Genesis it is obvious he is not omniscient... or he must be an idiot.
So God created man in his own image....
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
. . . .
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.
__ Genesis, chaptesr 1 and 6
Apparently this great and powerful god did not see this coming. And then the giant, imaginary idiot decides he should kill ALL the animals, because ONE of them, just one, 'man,' was corrupt.
So this guy is not only
not omniscient, he is unfair.
Clearly God is not omniscient. At least not in the popular sense of knowing every little thing that has happened, or that's ever going to happen. Frankly, we should dispel such notions and rethink the nature of God's knowledge.
Consider omnipotence as a parallel. There's good reason to believe that God is not omnipotent either in the classic sense of being able to do all things. That's all based on a Greek notion of perfection. Strongest biblical evidence for such a view is God's name El-Shaddai, which is commonly translated as Almighty, but whose original meaning is unclear.
A better view (if you want my 2 cents) is that God's knowledge (and power) can change over time. God can go from being practically powerless to all-powerful. From knowing nothing to having all knowledge.
Such aspects of God are dependent on the degree that we have committed ourselves -- including our knowledge and power -- to God. The whole point being for
all knowledge and power to eventually be God's (so that as Paul puts it in 1 Corinthians 15, "God may be all in all").
As our level of commitment changes over time, i.e., as more things depart from God or join with God (and effectively become God as part of, say,
elohim or the body of Christ), so too God's power and knowledge will diminish or rise across time.
But even then, 'all knowledge' is not the same as 'knowing everything'. It always has the upper bound of current collective knowledge, which like our commitment also changes over time. Again, just my 2 cents if you want to go into more nuanced theologies versus just beating up strawman views.