In the second session of "The Character of God" class I’m teaching, we covered 5 key aspects/truths regarding the Knowledge of God (His Omniscience). For your consideration and meditation, here’s a brief recap:
1) God is infinite in knowledge. There is nothing in the past, present, or future that He doesn’t know, whether things actual or merely possible.
- From before the creation of man, God knew of the fall; He knew your parents; He knew the day on which you would be conceived and exactly which egg within your mother would be fertilized to result in you. He knew of the scar you would get in your twenties and what would cause it. He knew the person you’d marry and how you’d meet. He ordained the day which you would repent & turn to Him. He knows every one of the days of your life, and the quality of health you’ll enjoy in each of them. (Eph 1:4-5, Ps 139:13-16)
- Do you realize that if your great-great-great-grandparents had not each been created exactly as they were, when they were, they would never have met each other, fallen in love, had children and continued the family line with you as the result?
- God knew that the atrocities of the Holocaust, the Crusades, Mao Zedong, the Stalin era of Russia, the slave trade, and the World Wars. He knew every man, woman & child who would die, and He knows perfectly all the theoretical ‘what ifs’ both pro & con that might have prevented, hastened or lengthened each of these tragedies. (Mt 10:29-31)