"Oh, god's omniscient!"
How did he determine that? Not you, the believer, but how did god decide that he was omniscient? He just knows all things, does he?
Well, no, he can't actually say that for a fact, because he's got no way of verifying it. Sure, he knows all the things that he knows, maybe that's a lot of things, and maybe that includes the "fact" that the things within his knowledge comprise all the things that there are, but how does he know that last fact is true, rather than a false thing that he believes really hard? People claim knowledge incorrectly all the time, and obviously you can't know about the things you don't know you're ignorant about. If god is completely, one hundred percent in the dark about something, to the point that he doesn't even know that he's ignorant about it, he could not be omniscient and still think he's omniscient.
There is no way for a supposedly omniscient being to actually verify that he is, indeed, omniscient. Any honest being, especially one that was actually omniscient, would both understand this, and also leave it out of their documentation on their attributes. The fact that god doesn't understand this simple fact is suggestive of his lack of omniscience.
How did he determine that? Not you, the believer, but how did god decide that he was omniscient? He just knows all things, does he?
Well, no, he can't actually say that for a fact, because he's got no way of verifying it. Sure, he knows all the things that he knows, maybe that's a lot of things, and maybe that includes the "fact" that the things within his knowledge comprise all the things that there are, but how does he know that last fact is true, rather than a false thing that he believes really hard? People claim knowledge incorrectly all the time, and obviously you can't know about the things you don't know you're ignorant about. If god is completely, one hundred percent in the dark about something, to the point that he doesn't even know that he's ignorant about it, he could not be omniscient and still think he's omniscient.
There is no way for a supposedly omniscient being to actually verify that he is, indeed, omniscient. Any honest being, especially one that was actually omniscient, would both understand this, and also leave it out of their documentation on their attributes. The fact that god doesn't understand this simple fact is suggestive of his lack of omniscience.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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