Christians, is God trully omniscient, omnibenevolent, and omnipotent?

Question

All knowing, all-good, and all powerful, in other words.

Answer 1

yes ...

Answer 2

Yes, but lets not forget that though he can do anything he wants he restricts himself when it comes to the free will of humanity. also as a side effect of his righteous nature, he cannot tolerate unrighteousness. so should people choose to be unrighteous in life he will keep them away from him in death. another question you might raise is natural disasters. those are a side effect of the fallen nature of mankind for overusing and defiling the land, though God does use them to test people, and force them to turn to him.

Answer 3

Amen!

Answer 4

1000% Yes.

Answer 5

As sure as the sun is going to rise!

Answer 6

Amen. Jesus Christ is proof of all three in one body.

Answer 7

I do not know if your question is serious or you are just trying to be clever ?

Answer 8

would i worship anything else. Cmon!!

Answer 9

yes & Amen
Omniscience, also sometimes known as being all-knowing, refers to God’s ability to know absolutely everything. This characteristic is usually treated as a consequence of one of two ways in which God exists: either because God exists outside of time, or because God exists as part of time.

If God exists outside of time, then God’s knowledge is also timeless — this means that God knows the past, present, and future simultaneously. One might imagine that God can directly and simultaneously observe the past, present, and future, and this perception of events is what allows God to know it all. If, however, God exists within time as well, then God knows all of the past and present, through direct perception; knowledge of the future, however, is perhaps dependent upon God’s ability to infer what will happen based upon God’s total knowledge of all factors which lead to the future.

Unfortunately, the most absolute sense of omniscience has been found to be incoherent.
If God were truly omniscient in an absolute and unlimited sense, then God could “know” things which are logically impossible to “know.” Can God “know” that 2 + 2 = 5, even though that isn’t true? Can God “know” what decisions God will make in the future? If God exists within time, then such “knowledge” is logically impossible if God also has free will; because of this, many philosophers and theologians have argued that God can only know that which is logically possible to know.

If omniscience were God’s only attribute, the logical limitations might be sufficient; however, other limitations have been found to be necessary because of other attributes which people tend to assume that God has. Without these extra limitations, the definition of God would become logically contradictory, and it would be reasonable to conclude that God, as defined, cannot exist.

For example, can God “know” what it’s like for God to play soccer? Some conceptions of gods in the past allowed for them to be able to play sports, but classic philosophical theism has always postulated a non-material, disembodied divinity. Such a god cannot possibly play soccer — an apparent contradiction to omniscience, especially since I am capable of knowing what it’s like to play soccer. Any direct experiential knowledge of this sort would thus be problematic — at best, God can know what it’s like for others to do these things.

To consider another example, is God capable of “knowing” suffering? Once again, some theistic systems have imagined gods capable of all manner of suffering and privation; philosophical theism, however, has always imagined a perfect God who is beyond such experiences. It is inconceivable to believers in such a god that it would ever suffer — even though humans are obviously quite capable of it.

As a consequence, another common limitation to omniscience which has developed in philosophy and theology is that God can know anything which is compatible with God’s nature. Playing soccer is not compatible with the nature of a non-material being. Suffering is not compatible with the nature of a perfect being. Thus, God may not be able to “know” how to play soccer or “know” suffering, but those aren’t “really” contradictions with divine omniscience because the definition of omniscience excludes anything contradictory to the nature of the being in question.

If that isn’t bad enough, philosophers and theologians have found themselves devising a number of other limitations upon the definition of omniscience in order to allow for many more things which God cannot do while retaining the characteristic of omniscience. For example, it is argued that God’s omniscience doesn’t include procedural knowledge (knowing how to do things, like ride a bike) or personal knowledge (knowledge derived from personal experience, like “knowing war”) — only propositional knowledge (knowledge of true facts). This, however, seems to reduce God to a type of computer storage bank: God contains all facts that exist, but nothing more interesting.

A detailed examination of these and other restrictions should be left for another time; what is important to see here is that “omniscience” has been whittled down bit by bit until there is very little left of the original concept. Arguably, you and I are “omniscient” under some of these “refined” conceptions which have become so weak. Any conception of omniscience which could allow us to argue that we are also omniscient has become irrelevant, especially when combined with the observation that we are capable of knowing a great many things well outside the ability of this allegedly omniscient god.

The various conflicts within and with the concept of omniscience shouldn’t surprise us. Philosophers and theologians did not start with an empirical observation that God was omniscient and then proceed to come to terms with how omniscience should be understood in relation to God’s other attributes. Such a context, if it existed, would perhaps allow us to be more sympathetic to the shifting sand under their feet.

In reality they began with the religious dogma that God is omniscient and then proceeded to redefine and redefine and then redefine it once again (although these are usually described as “refinements,” not redefinitions). This is an effort to harmonize one religious dogma with a series of other religious dogmas which are also redefined until somewhere, someone hopefully arrives at a set of definitions that don’t contradict either each other or anything we know about the world, yet are still meaningful.
No one has quite succeeded yet, but that’s not for want of trying.

Arguably, the original conception of omniscience wasn’t very coherent anyway — but as more and more of it is removed in order to make it safe for logic and for God’s other alleged attributes, we arrive at a position where there seems little point in continuing to use the term at all. Is God all-knowing or just very knowing? The eventual definition of all-knowing seems to barely distinguishable from very knowing. The term all-knowing cannot be abandoned for religious reasons, but the concept has been all but abandoned in the details.

Is the notion of God as omniscient coherent and meaningful? Perhaps, but because there is no single or obvious way to understand what “omniscience” means there are very good reasons to think that whatever definition is given, it will either contradict with other characteristics or it will be reduced to meaninglessness. Omniscience should be regarded with a very skeptical eye because there is every chance that it could be the undoing of many alleged gods.


Omnipresent (according to Merriam Webster Online) means "present in all places at all times."

God is Omnibenevolent - God desires for us to be as close to him as possible, and desires to have a true relationship with us (with our free will) as opposed to him being close to us without our free will.

God is Omniscent - God knows everything that will happen in the human universe, from Genesis to Exodus, from the beginning of time to the end.

God is Omnipotent - God can manipulate the human universe in anyway he feels, and God has the ability to create any type of soul he wants. A soul is defined as an agent that can live in the human world, has free will, and thus can sin.

The Bible describes God as being omniscient-meaning that He knows everything, past present and future-and that He is sovereign over the universe-meaning that He maintains absolute control.


Acts 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

John 21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

1 John 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Jeremiah 23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.


Omniscient: the divine attribute of perfect knowledge is declared in Psalms 33:13-15; 139:11, 12; 147:5; Proverbs 15:3, Isaiah 40:14; 46:10; Acts 15:18; I John 3:20 and Hebrews 4:13 to name a few. Its possession is incomprehensible to us, and yet it is necessary to our faith in the perfection of God's soverieignty.


God omniscient (does He truly know all) YES he knew us before we were born and already planned our future.

God omnipotent (does He truly have power over all)? He sure does, but he also gives us free will.

HALLALUJAH
GOD IS

AMEN


God omnibenvolent (does He always act in love) yes just like our parents they say NO sometimes too,

YES & AMEN