"Whoops!" I forgot to post this on Friday. Here you are:--It means God knows everything.
--But God doesn’t know in the sense that we do, acquiring knowledge of them. He is the source of knowing.
--That’s why God doesn’t just know everything, He literally is the source of all things being knowable. So, the idea that there could even exist something outside this scope is just nonsense.
--But it’s pretty natural to make this mistake of thinking there could be something God might not know if you start from the idea of His knowledge works like ours does, acquisitive and responsive to things that begin outside of us.
--Here’s an imperfect analogy. When you talk to someone, first you think an idea, then you form it into words, then you speak the words, then the other person hears them, then they comprehend them. And so their knowledge of your mind is mediated by all these stages.
--Well, one way to think of the knowable world is that the things we know are like the words in a conversation from God. So, to say that God would be speaking words that He didn’t previously fully comprehend is totally nonsense.
--Any knowable thing initiated first in Him just as the words people hear you speak initiated first in your mind.
--To think that you would “discover” or “find” yourself to be speaking certain words is impossible, except for some sort of cognitive disorder. And that’s why we don’t say that God acquires knowledge of things, we say that God is the reason they are knowable in the first place.
--It is in this way that God literally knows everything before it is even an object of knowledge.
--Thus, it’s not that God is “capable of” knowing everything. It’s that God literally knows everything before it even comes into existence as a knowable in any other way at all.
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