Thus, an all knowing God can know the number of hairs on your head because that is a number to be known. An all knowing God can know the thoughts of one's heart because that is knowledge to be known. An all knowing God can know a word in your mind before your speak it, because that is knowledge to be known.
Does God Know From All Eternity Who Will Die Having Rejected Sound Doctrine?
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Thus, an all knowing God can know the number of hairs on your head because that is a number to be known. An all knowing God can know the thoughts of one's heart because that is knowledge to be known. An all knowing God can know a word in your mind before your speak it, because that is knowledge to be known.
Your resopnse is evasive and unhelpful.
Do you not agree that grouping those word-pictures in different ways, presents different meanings for the whole?
If I am a chess grand master and a rookie challenges me to a game, would my confidence from the start about the end being i win, prove I knew beforehand every move my opponent and I would make even before the game started? Knowing the end from the begining does not imply exhaustive foreknowledge of the entire process pof getting from the beginning to the end.
How would a purely good being, before creating any worlds, conceive of all the possible abominations His creation will perform after creation, if there were no evil in Him ?
if He knows His sheep,
then the interpretation that means He has sheep that He has no idea about is a false interpretation.
if He has sheep that He has no knowledge of, then He is a liar.
if He has sheep that He has no knowledge of "yet" then He is not Almighty; time is greater than God, so time should be worshipped instead of Him.
thus open theism is debunked.
only in the sense that you have a private definition of "omniscient"
not unlike Mormons saying agreeing that Christ is God -- when they say God, they don't mean God. they mean "a god" among zillions of gods, all of whom used to be created mortal beings.
you are aware of the concept of murderer.
does that make you a murderer?
does God become guilty of sin every time anyone sins and God becomes aware of it?
because He knows of it?
pretty absurd argument you got there, m8.
I don't believe God lacks knowledge. He knows everything that exists to be known at any moment. That knowledge is complete. Probability functions are not knowable in the present. Hence God not knowing them is not a lack of knowledge and does not detract from his complete knowledge of all that is and can be known at any moment.
You have not proven that the future has real existence and is therefore knowable.
God speaks of things THAT ARE NOT as though THEY ARE He does not speak of things THAT ARE NOT because they actually are. Rom. 4:17
Future things "are not". Some things God promises for the future. The prophecies are i.e. do exist, but their fulfilments are not., i.e. do not exist Yet God speaks of them as though they are, because he is able to bring those prophesied events about by His omnipotence. The future things are not known,:they do not exist to be known. But the prophecies of the future events are known: the prophecies exist to be known.
You have a neo-platonic concept of omniscience. The Bible is not a neoplatonic revelation. It is a Hebrew revelation which nowhere speaks of God as having na neo-platonic kind of omniscience. No one has shown scripture declaring God's knowledge is exhaustive of every detail of every world and of every time, including the future. That is a Greek idea, smuggled into the text, not a biblical one, drawn from the text..
When does someone become His sheep? That's when he begins to know them as His sheep. He does not have me as His sheep until I put my trust in Him. He has no knowledge of me as His sheep until I become His sheep.
If I imagined the idea of murder before anything even capable of murder existed, where did that idea come from if not my own heart?
If I learn of murder because I hear of or see murder happening, where did that idea come from. Not my own heart.
I don't see any merit to you rebuttal here.
Your definition of omniscient seems private. Where is your definition of omniscience to be found in scripture?
According to this passage, when did God know Abraham feared God? How did God know?
Genesis 22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
God left the decision up to Abraham. As soon as Abraham made the decision and started to act upon it, the knowledge became known that Abraham feared God.
Paul Thomson is turning out to be a naysayer.
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. (2 Tim 2:19)
If God know them that are His, He also knows them that are not His. Period.
John 10:16 I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well,
and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.