(June 11, 2016 at 5:42 pm)Irrational Wrote:(June 11, 2016 at 5:19 pm)SteveII Wrote: Then your problem seems to be with the definition of omniscience. Omniscience is knowing all possible truths. How could a being who knows all possible truths at any instant be mindless? Just the opposite, it would take an infinite mind to hold all that information. My point is omniscience replaces thinking (a process) to arrive at a conclusion. Anyway, my response to Nihilist Virus was specific because that is what he was arguing. Unless you are discussing a specific doctrinal issue or trying to prove something incorrect about God, the distinction probably does not matter.
The way you seem to conceive of knowledge is as mere possession of some required information to solve some problem at hand, and not as an outcome of a process.
So, for you, it seems omniscience is simply being a source of infinite information.
So, again, what distinguishes God (in this case) from a mindless source of infinite information (such as some eternal metaphysical supercomputer)?
If there is no distinction, then what logic do you have that God is a mindful entity and not a mindless one? If being mindful does not require time, then what makes it mindful rather than mindless?
Knowledge is a possession. Facts and information. For us, knowledge is an outcome of a process but then it exists as facts and information. We are blank slates (knowledge-wise) when we start off and need a process to start filling the knowledge bucket. Omniscience skips that step.
God is not a supercomputer because God acts on the information he has. He has a will, he has other characteristics by which he makes decision (justice, mercy, love, etc.).
