So you think an omniscient god would need to be "born human" to understand what it's like for humans?

Question

Do you not understand what the word 'omniscient' means? We're talking something powerful enough to create the very concept of life and humanity itself. Such a creature needn't do ANYTHING to understand EVERYTHING.
Your hypothesis must be an example of the mindless non-thinking that everybody talks about with religion.

Answer 1

this is but one more example of man putting a limitation on a god-this is but one more reason why i cannot accept a god concept---just my thoughts-smile and enjoy the day

Answer 2

Omniscient reflects the knowledge of everything, however this does not include the experience of everything namely: human existence...Let me explain

Put it like this you know about school and all the subjects and academics pertaining to it, but unless you were a student, then it would be hard to understand what it actually means for the conditions for your life to cram for an exam even if you see how it effects anothers students life, unless you actually walk through it, you really wouldn't understand what it is like to be a human...

In order for there to be ammends with an all powerful all knowing God an atonement must be made and in that was Christ, who sympathizes with us knowing what humans go through.

God had a plan...The old testament points to the new testament...

I can tell you if you go to God with your whole heart, he himself will explain the mysteries and questions that you have...it just begins with faith of a mustard seed and giving it all to Him, who owns everything anyways, so what do you have yo lose? Ask and it shall be given seek and yee shall find...He loves you and in Christ relationship with Him makes the impossible possible... God Bless

Answer 3

God is Holy, Holy, Holy, myriads upon myriads of Holiness, God does not understand evil or why humans tend to go in that direction, God had also never walked in the flesh before Jesus. Jesus came to set a example of how we are suppose to live and to pay for the sins of the world else we would all be eternally doomed. Everyone was living the law to the letter of the law, Jesus came to bring life to the law.
Your hypothesis is a example of the mindless non-thinking that abounds. Go read the Bible and pray.

Answer 4

no, God did not need to come to earth to understand what it's like for humans. You're right he is omniscient. He knows what we're going through. I believe that he did it more for our sake as humans. In doing this he becomes more personal to us. It would become easy to say that He cant understand what I'm going through if he didn't spend time in our shoes, but now that he has lived a life on earth, we know that he has actually felt what we have felt and been tempted like we have been temped. There is a difference between knowing and experiencing.

Answer 5

I see what you are getting at.
However this is one of my biggest problems about the Christian God. The theories, rules and other gibberish that I read in the bible or hear from Christians lead me to think that this god has no clue what it means to be human.
I ask a lot of questions that attempt to reflect a possible "human side" of God and most often they get shot down.
If this Christian God were true then you would think that he would have a better understanding of human emotions. He supposedly sent Jesus to be himself in human form...but I do not think he quite grasped it well enough. Yes I know it wasn't for that purpose...but couldn't this be a lesson for both God and humans? We are to understand God through Jesus...but God did not understand us through Jesus.

Answer 6

Look, contrary to what many people think, all of the Bible wasn't written at the same time. Isaiah, for instance was written hundreds of years before Jesus was born. Hundreds of years!

And yet, this is what he said:
6 For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
( Isaiah 9 )

God is quite capable of fulfilling a promise, and He made a lot of them concerning Jesus, the Messiah.

So once you really get into the Bible, you may see that God planned the while thing from the beginning, and He doesn't 'need' anything. God came to Earth as Jesus of Nazareth because He said He would. No amount of worldly analyzing will take that away .

Answer 7

Hebrews 4:15
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 4:14-16 (in Context) Hebrews 4 (Whole Chapter)

The purpose of God coming to us in physical form was so that He could show that there is an ability to live without sin, to offer a sacrifice (slaughter of the innocent) for man - who apparently could not live without sin. All of this is not an example of a mean and hateful God but of one who is willing to lay down His very life to save His creation of man. Man chose to sin in the beginning and God provided a way to right that in Jesus.
Your demand that our "hypothesis" must be blah blah blah is really not a proper statement as in "everybody" who talks about religion is a mindless non-thinking individual.

Answer 8

Well no that is not what I think. And I do understand what omniscient means. So, and I think the majority of Christian respondants will say in one way or another "your 'hypothesis' misses the mark about what we believe. "

As for why Jesus came in the flesh, let me offer Romans 8:3 "For what the law could not do in that it was weak in the flesh, God did, by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh."

Answer 9

Mindless NON Thinking???? WOW!

First off He really did not "need" to. He wanted to.
Second, He let go of all that "power and majesty" as an omnipotent being and HUMBLED Himself to dwell amoung us. Do you know what Humble means???

May be in your finite mind you should try not so hard to understand and Infinite One if it hurts you so much.

God Bless you and guide you into His Truth.

Answer 10

Of course God understand us, with or without Jesus coming to earth- however just think of it this way, what if Jesus had not come to earth, we could not have a personal relationship with the ONE that knows us better than we know ourselves.