2007-11-08 01:09:56 · 14 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is beyond concept or knowing. He is trancendent.
To say he is all knowing is to put in human terms some condition we associate with our experience. Because we think his state parallels our state. Our "knowing" is in some loving way, him condecending his nature toward us so that we may experience him and his love on a human level.
So in terms of thinking he knows all what the collective consciousness knows then yes he is all knowing. But to restrict that part of consciousness that we identify as knowing to him is incorrect. His experience is beyond knowing. He establishes that which is known. He creates that which is known.
He is beyond knowing both from your capacity to know and from his infinite nature to be restricted by knowing. He is beyond knowing.
Look at nbm's answer for a different perspective of the same theme.
2007-11-09 02:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by An Nony Mous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But it is so by definition.
In asking that question it suggests you do not have a certain kind of understanding. But what that understanding is, is difficult to explain, or it seems so at this moment.
God is necessarily a universal, but in Christianity God is both universal and particular.
The definition is absolute and does not arise as if it had an origin in time, and the definition must also be self evident. Therefore the definition of God is "a-priori" knowledge.
"A-priori" knowledge is knowledge that when expressed in words it must necessarily be true and it is agreed upon simply by understanding the meanings of the words used in such and such a proposition.
2007-11-08 20:12:28 · answer #2 · answered by David L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no personified deity that is 'all-knowing.' God/Reality is the non-material field from which we evolved that is responsive to consciousness individually and en masse.
Rather - in consideration of the above context - it is the human being - having achieved an internal state of psychological unity (ego death) - that can be said to be 'all-knowing' in each present moment (the eternal now), having detached access to an infinite field of information and potentiality.
2007-11-08 15:55:17 · answer #3 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Bible does not claim that God is all-knowing.
When Cain kills Abel, God asks Cain where Abel is.
Cain lies; he tells God he is not his brother's keeper.
But Abel's blood cries out to the Lord from the ground.
2007-11-08 09:20:15 · answer #4 · answered by Digital Age 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is all-knowing by definition.
Omniscient (all-knowing), Omnipotent (all-powerful), and Omnipresent (everywhere).
Why are you bothering to ask a question about a fictitious character you don't believe in, anyway?
2007-11-08 12:27:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God exisits that is part of what makes Him God. If He wasn't all knowing He wouldn't be God.
2007-11-08 09:17:45 · answer #6 · answered by Don 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't, or even that he exists at all, but it is worth knowing the trait of omniscience (all-knowing) is in direction contradiction to God's other trait, omnipotence (all-powerful). Can't be both at the same time!
2007-11-08 09:19:09 · answer #7 · answered by Zombie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We don't even know that there actually is a god.
2007-11-08 09:20:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know for sure. But if we believe God is everything and He is everywhere, then He'll obviously be all-knowing.
2007-11-08 09:42:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he just do!! thats why He could always helps us even when we didnt pray or say anything to Him.
2007-11-08 09:18:14 · answer #10 · answered by applecheekgal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋