CC--Christianese: Omniscience (part 1 of 3)

· --Literally, it means all-knowing or possessing all knowledge.
--In some ways, this seems almost bafflingly massive, and it should.
--But in other ways, it’s just a byproduct of the other attributes of God.

--If He is all-powerful and is the one who holds the entire universe together at every moment, then it’s pretty logical to realize that He knows every single little aspect of that universe fully.
--If there were any portion of it He did not know this way, He wouldn’t really be in control of it and this would constitute either a limit on His power or His sovereignty or His sustaining of it all.
--But there’s an important distinction between the knowledge of God and the knowledge of people, a distinction which is not captured by the simple ideas of a tremendous difference of scope.
-- See, the experience of human knowledge isn’t just that it’s limited by our senses and our location and other factors. It’s the fact that it is acquired. We receive information and thereby acquire knowledge.
--For God, since He is the creator and sustainer of everything, there is no sense in which He ever acquires information. He literally is the source of information, the disseminator of it. Things come to be first in His mind and then in reality and then they can be known by other beings like us.
--Even when God looks at things and seems to “discover” them to be good or pleasing, this is a human way of speaking rather than an accurate representation of God “gaining” perspective.