The power of God...

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If we assume Christianity then yes, there is. John 10:30 Jesus states "I and the Father are one". So, if Jesus is one with God then he must be God. Now, if we do not assume Christianity, then well, there is not significant enough proof to claim that God must necessarily exist, much less an incarnation.

I don't see the paradox. Omniscience means all knowing, if he knows all, then he knows this better than we do.

I hardly see it as a paradox and see nothing paradoxical about it.


Not really, God is usually defined as existing through all of time, this leads to interesting questions on the metaphysics of time, but the metaphysics of time is a question with all conceptions of reality.

does knowelege have a biggining and end? im shure it doesnt as theres always something to probably learn that you dont know about. i cant believe people would be so dumb to think otherwise, now the question, does god have it? i dont know and im not going to try to guess about what he knows or doesnt know

Well, we can argue that reality has a finite amount of units, (which can be quarks or whatever the smallest components may well be). If there are a finite number of units, there must be a finite number of interconnections between units, which means that from a materialist standpoint, knowledge about the universe can have an end if we understand all of the units. We cannot necessarily reach this end using tools we know of though. I suppose I might be assuming less than infinite variables about each unit, no matter what it is, that need to be known, but we have not seen infinite complexity yet.

Of course, human beings have finite amounts of time in existence, and new information is generated faster than even our greatest computers could calculate it. Our limitations mean that additional information will always exist, the issue then comes down to desirability of information. As well, some pieces of information prevent us from knowing other pieces concurrently. Therefore, it is quite logical that it is impossible for human beings to not be able to find all information, the issue falls down to whether or not we can get the information that seems useful.

The fact that he is omniscient means he must be aware of this though. If he isn't, then he's not omniscient. He's just a bigot who boasts about this useless kind of power.

Omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience do not impress me.