I can understand that men would imagine and even "create" such a being - to kind of fill in the gaps of ignorance and fear, but realistically, no being could every make such a claim because there is the possibility that that being could be wrong.
Perhaps God should say, "I am the All in All - the beginning and the end..."
with the disclaimer: "As far as I know" or "within my observation of the dimensions I am abiding in..."
To say that the human mind is incapable of understanding God's confident reality only begs the question: "Why did God make men so far removed from the reality of God as to make the obviousness of God impossible, in the light of scientific observation?"
It is the supreme irony, if not the supreme joke, is it not?
2007-12-19 14:26:53 · 16 answers · asked by The Burninator 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most of you do not even understand the question.
Or you would not make such inane comments like, "you are smarter than God..." or "God created everything..."
How do you know? How could any God - even the supreme God know such things?
It is an unfalsifiable impossibility.
2007-12-19 14:50:58 · update #1
11 He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Those who have will be given more, and they will have an abundance. As for those who do not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:
"Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
" 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people's heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.'
2007-12-19 14:57:55 · answer #1 · answered by starry_skies1969 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Using rational arguments against religious people is like using a hammer to nail air down.
You are right in your assessment that most fail understand your question. Believers just aren't bright enough to enter these discussions. If they were, they wouldn't hold the views that they do.
I love your reasoning. It is a great idea that God would be capable of ignorance. It is the same reasoning that believers throw at us, "You CAN'T KNOW that there isn't a God!" They make an appeal to the argument that nothing can be 100% certain as their defense without realizing that it undermines their claims about God.
Beautiful.
2007-12-20 15:14:58 · answer #2 · answered by The J Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't want to be hidden by the would he wants to make himself known if you would only seek him out. People these ays twist things and make up theories such as evolution. God kws all this because God is God and he created all things that's how he knows all things! Some things in life aren't a joke even if you think so.
2007-12-19 22:44:13 · answer #3 · answered by dare2bdifferent 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hehe does God know EVERYTHING? Good question. I guess we really cannot know. Does God even exist? I prefer to say yes, but I guess that's just my opinion. And, the human mind is incapable of fully understanding such an important issue because 1. We cannot live long enough 2. We dont know everything 3. A lot of religion is controlled by humans, which leads to errors.
As far as your points, we can't really know either. It is like the Rig Veda said. "Only the highest being knows. Or perhaps, he does not know."
2007-12-19 22:31:22 · answer #4 · answered by Ragriav 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God is the All-in-All; The Beginning and the End. And yes, God knows everything. We don't know everything but what we do know, God has allowed us to know it. If you lived to be 999 years old, you will never know as much as God. Your brains can't contain it. You will short circut first. I can prove it to you. Look at the little we do know... Haven't you noticed the times when you you just couldn't figure something out and it seemed to have gotten the best of you? You were left confused and frustrated weren't you? Even now you're baffled. Now that you know you can't know everything God knows, why don't you just trust Him?
2007-12-19 22:46:42 · answer #5 · answered by use 2 b lost 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are forgetting one piece in the puzzle. God created everything, so therefore nothing CAN go on without his knowledge. It is simply impossible.
2007-12-19 22:42:08 · answer #6 · answered by Matthew P (SL) 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's safe to say that God does indeed know "everything." He gives us free will and doesn't like all the choices we will make, but he still "knows" what everyone will do.
2007-12-19 22:36:37 · answer #7 · answered by Paul 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Socrates had a god-like knowledge and ended up philosophy's number one joke.
"All I know is I know nothing".
Exousia Skotos: You can't learn what isn't there.
2007-12-19 22:32:02 · answer #8 · answered by Exousia Skotos 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since created the world, knows less than everything.
The importart part of the knowledge has passed to Satan since God tried to flood the Earth to kill all people.\ and animals on it.
2007-12-19 22:32:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
So what your saying is that you know all there is to know about God? Probably even more than Him?
2007-12-19 22:37:17 · answer #10 · answered by guitarrman45 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋