GOD is Omniscient 1

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The Nature of GOD book image created by DALL-E AI with added Title
The Nature of GOD book image created by DALL-E AI with added Title

Let us now learn about another Nature of GOD called Omniscience. What is Omniscience? Is GOD Omniscient in all His existence or only in selected existence by their doctrine? What is the relationship between being Omniscient, being Absolute, and the State of Existence? Does the Omniscient Nature create a Ripple Effect on the other Nature of GOD? Can a man be an Omniscient being? We have seen that the Nature of GOD is unfathomable, but the Roman Catholic doctrine or its formulation is not. Can we prove that their doctrine is not unfathomable from the perspective of the Omniscient Nature of GOD? 

Omniscient means knowing everything.2 which also implies that GOD is All-knowing. Omniscience is the characteristic of having an absolute omniscient. When we say that GOD is omniscient, we imply that GOD’s Omniscience is absolute because everything that exists and will exist comes from GOD. Why did I include the future tense that will exist? Remember that the future involves time, and time is part of the creation of GOD, so GOD knows the past, present, and future, including all that will exist in the future. The point is that GOD is Absolute in his Omniscience. The Omniscience of GOD is discussed in Chapter 3 of the free book Save Our Souls. There are two keywords to remember for the Omniscience of GOD, i.e., Absolute and All. All is a subset of being Absolute. Why Absolute? Because GOD is Perfect. Let me give a simple analogy.

Absolute and All Batteries

If you have ten rechargeable batteries, recharge them together for a time short enough not to complete the energy capacity of each battery. All the batteries were recharged to 50% level. Then someone asked: "Have you "absolutely" recharged the batteries?" Since All batteries are recharged up to 50%, can you conclude that All means Absolute? We can only say that the batteries are "absolutely" recharged if all of them are recharged up to 100%. In short, All does not always imply Absoluteness. Even if we say fully charged, the fully might refer to a single battery that got fully charged, which shows that not in all cases full or all implies absoluteness. The relationship reflects that all/full is a subset of being Absolute.

Now that we have explained that All is a subset of being Absolute, the second question: Is being Omniscient only related to Knowledge? How about Wisdom? Note that Wisdom and Knowledge are not the same, but they correlate. Would you consider Wisdom as part of the Omniscience of GOD? Let us reflect on the Wisdom of King Solomon shared by GOD in 1 Kings 3:16-28. In the story, two women claim a child as her own. Having the Knowledge that a true mother loves her child, King Solomon ordered to cut the child in half. The true mother cried out to save the baby and to give that child to the other women, and that is when King Solomon understood who the true mother was. The lesson is that Wisdom is founded on Knowledge, and knowing how to apply that Knowledge in the best way is called Wisdom. It means that Wisdom is part of the Omniscience of GOD.

I hope we will be on the side of GOD and not on the side of the doctrine. What is the difference? Someone may answer that he is on the side of Jesus, so he is on the side of GOD. Technically, it is not on the side of GOD but is on the side of the doctrine. Remember this paradigm in this post The Right Faith Paradigm

Figure A. The Right Faith Paradigm
Figure A. The Right Faith Paradigm

The Roman Catholic doctrine has its formulation that underlies their logic of making man a GOD. It is plainly on the doctrinal side to make a man their GOD. We must remember that the Nature of GOD exists even before any doctrine exists. It also means that the Nature of GOD can exist without any doctrine. When we say that GOD is Omniscient, this Nature of GOD is above any doctrine and creations. No angel can exceed the Omniscience of GOD, and it proves my point in the above diagram. Similar to doctrines, no doctrine is above the Nature of GOD. When someone says that he is on the side of Jesus, he is not on the side of GOD because when we strictly say we are on the side of GOD, it means we should be standing up for the Nature of GOD free from any doctrine. If we are saying that we are standing for Jesus, we are not standing up for the Nature of GOD, but cross-fit the Nature of GOD to elevate their doctrine. Below is the depiction if you stand for Jesus and claim that you are standing on the side of GOD.

Figure B. The Upside-down Dual Nature Paradigm
Figure B. The Upside-down Dual Nature Paradigm

We can see that if you say that you are on the side of GOD and your thoughts are on the side of Jesus, then your standing is on the side of the Roman Catholic doctrine of making a man a GOD. A big difference if we say that we are on the side of GOD because we stand for the Nature of GOD free from any doctrine.We should put our Faith in the right paradigm where the Nature of GOD is above any religion or doctrines because this impacts our understanding of our Faith and the Omniscience of GOD.

Omniscience is not only about having all the knowledge but includes Wisdom. We also explained the keywords (Absolute and All) that connect with the Omniscient Nature of GOD. In the succeeding post showing the Nativity or the birth of Jesus, we will see how all these correlate, their crucial role in revealing the Truth about the Omniscience of GOD and our Faith, and the fallacy of the Roman Catholic doctrine.

References

  1. https://ahavahpublisher.com/book/ “Save Our Souls. Fritz Jeran Velasco, 2024”
  2. https://archive.org/details/oxfordadvancedle00unse/page/1061/mode/1up?view=theater/ “Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary 8th edition, Joanna Turnbull, 2010, p. 1061”