God's Omniscience

2 ways to speak of God's omniscience:
God knows everything, past present and future - fits with an eternal God. (Bible talks about God knowing people through and through (Psalm) and before birth (Jeremiah)
God's knowledge is limited either in that he only knows what is logically possible to know or that he chooses to limit his knowledge so humans can have free will.
Important to talk about how what we mean when we talk about God having knowledge. God is unlike humans in that he exists outside time and is non-physical so he does not experience and therefore does not acquire knowledge in the way we do - through experience of our senses. Aquinas argues that God can still have knowledge however as knowledge itself it non-physical.
If we consider an everlasting God, he can gain new knowledge as events occur. He knows what is logically possible to know so he cannot be expected…

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