Is God Omniscient?

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Yes God is reminiscent that's why he planned out the world in a great manner.
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God is ominiscient. The author tried to paint a picture of God being more of a father figure than as a God he is. Let's not forget the author wrote out of his imaginations.
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Yes God is omniscient. What ever picture the author was trying to paint is just his imagination.
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Yeah God knows everything from the start to finish. One reason I always acknowledge him.
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Its definitely a portrayal that humanizes the character of God perhaps to make him more relatable/ understandable. For me as a Muslim, I also believe God is Omniscient and thus knows all things and knows people (his creation) better than we know ourselves.
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Although the book did not really portray God as omniscient, in my opinion, and from the biblical standpoint, he is.
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God being omniscient still confuses me. When Adam and Eve ate of the fruit he had asked them not to eat from, he came to the garden calling and looking for them. He was supposed to know where they where, what they had done. In fact, he was supposed to know that they would eat the fruit that day before they did.

I'm just as confused as anyone in this matter on God being omniscient.
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Yaksha Shetty wrote: 26 Jun 2020, 12:39 Yes God is Omniscient. And that is why everything around us works the way it works.
It does not really explain it. Nature takes it course no matter what. And there are things you'd expect not to happen and for God to prevent if he knew it was going to happen before hand.
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Elvis Best wrote: 27 Jun 2020, 13:19 In the book, I think what the author tried to do was to humanise God. God was portrayed as a being who could also make mistakes. But this goes contrary to our believe that God is omniscient.

It's a different way to look at God, and I think what the author was trying to do was to challenge our former theology about God.
I agree. The author was writing about God in a different perspective. He portrayed God as a loving father who makes mistakes, regrets things ( the bible actually registered God having a regret) and is surprised by the actions if his creation. That is a way of looking at God as a father, but not entirely as a God.
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yosek123 wrote: 27 Jun 2020, 17:07 I saw this portrayal as a variation on the "Problem of Evil," a paradox presented by Epicurus and David Hume. Hume postulates: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then from whence comes evil?" In this book, God does not seem to be omniscient, since he is surprised by some of the actions. He is not, however, malevolent as the quote may suggest since he does govern.
I think the main reason God does not so much interfere with certain things happening on earth is because he had set the earth in motion and for nature to take it's course. He also gave man free will which he won't interfere with. Letting these two work out on their own, evil is bound to happen.
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do20 wrote: 29 Jun 2020, 12:31 I believe that God is omniscient, he knows everything about the past, the present and the future. God was not surprised but rather angry because human being had disobeyed him.
If he is omniscient, shouldn't he had known that they would disobey him? He should know on which day and through what means. The probable explanation is that he knew but would not interfere with their free will.
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Sushan wrote: 29 Jun 2020, 19:44 If you don't control the whole situation then you have to be ready for surprises. Adam and Eve had free will, so everything could not have been foreseeable
Exactly! It's the free will tht accounts for God's surprise. Man has a choice, his decisions to choose between good and evil cannot be interfered with.
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God is omniscient irrespective of how this book portrays Him. His manifested presence however varies.
It's the author's point of view it communicated anyways.
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In my opinion God is not surprised by anything that happens. (I’m not sure I’d like to live that way.) He knew what they were going to do before they did it, so even if He was capable of being surprised, He had ample time to go over the possible ways they would react to the situation.
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God is indeed omniscient but killing Abel does not potray Him as one. The author likened God to a being who is prone to mistakes instead of an all knowing God. This is my only dissatisfaction about the book.
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