Originally posted by s0uljah
Clearly states according to whom?
there is not "according to". it says what it says. even dr. lao, who is not a believer, and completley neutral on the issue agrees that the bible says that God is omniscient. If you can find me one atheist or christian that actually tries to debate an non-omniscient God, please find that person for me. i don't think you will because a non-omniscient God is a logical contradiction. i would imagine that more atheists would try to argue that, as it implies a limited God.
i posted this earlier. these are just SOME of the scriptures that show God's forknowledge of all that would occur.
(earlier post
Okay, Okay...this has gone on long enough!
The idea that God "doesn't know everything" is absurd, and completley counter-scriptural. One of the attributes that has ALWAYS been attributed to God is that he is omniscient (knows all). I do not know of a single scholar, liberal or evangelical, that believes in a God that is constricted by time, and does not know the future, much less the entire course of a person's life.
God knows "The End from the Beginning", Isaiah 46:10,
"Before a word is on my tounge, You know it O Lord, such knowledge is too lofty for me to attain." 139:4,
"Great is the Lord, Mighty is his power, His understanding is INFINITE." pslams 147:5
"Nothing in creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account." Heb 4:13
As Norman Geisler points out in His book "Chosen but Free"...
"Even those who would eventually able saved were KNOWN by God (1 Peter 1:2) BEFORE the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4) By his LIMITLESS knowledge God is able to predict the exact course of human history (Daniel 2, 7) including the names of generations before they were born! Nearly TWO HUNDRED predictions were made by God about Messiah, no one of which failed. God knows all things, past present, and future." (emphasis mine)
If God does not know the future, then that really throws all the prophetic books out the window, doesn't it? Perhaps He just randomly decided to send Christ, since He didn't know the future and this seemed like his best bet? Christ couldn't have been planned, how could he? God didn't know what people would choose. What about the prophecies in Revalation? Are those good guesses by God? Come on, nothing could further from the truth of what scripture says.
I understand the idea that God creating people that he allows to go to Hell is difficult, but lets not try to dance around it by twisting what scripture so clearly says: God knew every single person he created, their choices, destination and all, before the foundations of this world were created.