RE: Could an omnipotent and omniscient god prove that he was God?
January 10, 2023 at 10:44 am
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2023 at 10:50 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(January 10, 2023 at 10:21 am)Jehanne Wrote:(January 10, 2023 at 9:43 am)h4ym4n Wrote: Genesis 3:9
New International Version
9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
Does god just fake it?
Believers can easily explain this one away and have been doing so for centuries; they call it God's "middle knowledge", although, one's mileage will vary quite a bit in the realm of theology.
I don’t think either is the case. I’ve mentioned before that there’s no inconsistency or contradiction with God being omniscient and asking, ‘Where are you?’. There’s no reason that God couldn’t simply be asking a rhetorical question to which he already knew the answer.
Suppose you come home and find your kitchen bin dumped and scattered all over the floor, and your dog in the middle of the destruction happily gnawing on last night’s chicken carcass. Asking the dog, ‘What did you do??’ isn’t necessarily a request for information.
Boru
Edit: Regarding the OP, this one was neatly wrapped up ages ago. God could provide proof of his existence. He opts not to, because he wants people to believe in him as a matter of faith. Why God expects his creations to rely on faith instead of evidence, however, is never satisfactorily explained.
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