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Is God omniscient

I believe God is omniscient by definition but I still believe God has limitations based on how He created everything. I believe He wrote the laws of nature into the atom and its individual parts right from the beginning of time. And He works within the laws of nature which He created.
BibleData · M
The God of the Bible?

1. Omnivore doesn't mean eating everything, literally. So define omniscient. Is it literal?
2. If God were omniscient it would mean that he knew that Adam would and then had sinned. He did not. He also didn't know if Cain had killed Abel or if people were as bad in Sodom and Gomorrah as people were saying. The Bible is full of examples of how God doesn't know some things, that he can't be in certain places and that he can't do certain things.

So either God isn't those things or those things aren't what they are thought to be. Can God lie contained in the heavens? According to the Bible, no. That leaves out omnipotent and omnipresent.
Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@BibleData I think it is the same God for everyone. But different interpretations. Humans can never understand God fully. And good is good.
BibleData · M
@Axeroberts [quote] I think it is the same God for everyone. [/quote]

No. Jehovah is not the same as Jesus, Satan, Shiva, Allah, Zeus, Moloch, Amaterasu, et cetera.

[quote]But different interpretations. [/quote]

I think that people who think that tend to think that each named God is actually a product of a manufactured concept of either "good" or "evil." The universal and nonsensical "Good vs Evil" manifested in mythology, tradition, culture, religion, et cetera. The problem is that your good is not necessarily my good. Many millions of people have died at the hands of someone else's "good" tyranny.

[quote]Humans can never understand God fully.[/quote]

Of course they can, all or individual Gods or God in general. What mankind can never fully do is take advantage of the obvious ignorance and increase it. For their good. Meaning that they will continue to develop that advantage through ignorance until they aren't allowed to do that any longer.

[quote]And good is good.[/quote]

Indeed, it is. But your good isn't my good and mine isn't yours. Jehovah's good isn't Satan's good and Satan's isn't Jehovah's good.
Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@BibleData The relationship with this Creator has changed over the year and developed but it all refers to a Creator. And what religions define as good and bad may not be what an individual would agree with.
Adstar · 56-60, M
If you believe God has limitations then He is not God to you.. He may be a superior being to you but to be a God to you He must be perfect..
BibleData · M
@Adstar Then why would they be judged?
Adstar · 56-60, M
@BibleData What?
BibleData · M
@Adstar What is the point of everyone being judged?
SDavis · 56-60, F
For us he works within the laws of the nature that he created for this planet.

What of the heavens with a s' other places that are not like her.

Scripture says things seen are not made of what things that appear Hebrew 11:3...... That means what we think we know we don't.

The new heaven in the new Earth the new earth will not have any more oceans, no sun, no moon - totally different than this planet. Does it operate on a different principle - most likely.

Look at the angels and the ability he has given them things that man can only dream of. Not natural too but what goes on on this planet.

Limitations on God - well here is one that can't put limitations on a being who has the amount of control that he has.
Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@SDavis within our earth and universe I agree with you. He made the laws of nature and cannot break them. They were written into the atom at the time of creation. But I don't know anything about the new earth you mentioned
SDavis · 56-60, F
@Axeroberts Because it hasn't occurred yet and not proven - only written in scripture in the Book of Revelation 21:1 & 21:23 an unbeliever will not accept without tangible evidence.
SW-User
The ultimate source is incomprehensible to finite minds. (Rather than "incomprehensible" the east speaks of "emptiness" - [i]sunyata[/i]) In a sense we can unite with this source, thereby allowing us to share in its unending unfolding into novelty. This at least as I see it.

Positing some totally transcendent Being, and asking if such a "Being" is omniscient, simply creates confusion and endless attempts at mental gymnastics by our finite minds as we stumble about seeking to relate such to our "freedom".
Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@SW-User The Source sounds nice. I really think it all refers to the same thing just different channels
Can’t deal with iron chariots.
Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@BlueSkyKing You didn't like Ben Hurr? 😆
BibleData · M
@BlueSkyKing [quote]Can’t deal with iron chariots.[/quote]

Yes he can.
eMortal · M
Knowing is not causing. Our choices have consequences. Good and bad.
Removing the bad completely from the equation would leave us with inability to compare how awesome the good is.
Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@Emosaur let me say that freewill is what we have because God does not interfere.
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Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@Emosaur you are referring to the biblical God as you see it. That's fine but not my belief
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
If he is omniscient, then he has no excuses:
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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Axeroberts No. I take responbility for my own stuff. That way, if he does show up I feel justified in demanding an explanation. And it better be good...😷
SW-User
@whowasthatmaskedman You have access to Him. Ask Him your questions. He doesn’t bite… well not for asking questions at least
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@SW-User I get kept on hold enough. He knows my number if he wants to talk...😷
SW-User
He does many things that defy nature and are inexplicable
DallasCowboysFan · 61-69, M
@SW-User I keep going back to the old question, if God created the universe, who created God?
And I wonder if God created everything or just the suns and planets in our galaxy. After all, there are over a trillion planets just in our Milky Way

There are some things we will never know.
I don't think angels have all the answers.
SW-User
@DallasCowboysFan Always seek truth. Never stop learning. Don’t let the American Christians stop you from asking questions
Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@BlueSkyKing what I call a miracle is when a baby falls from a window and lives for example. No laws of nature are broken but when a baby lives it's a true miracle in my eyes
REMsleep · 41-45, F
Definition of God is no limitations. Why would God be limited?
Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@Emosaur Creator or God but you have to listen to what I am saying
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Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@Emosaur what's the difference if you are not listening to the person 😆
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Axeroberts · 56-60, M
@Emosaur that is one belief. Not my belief but certainly many people's

 
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