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Does God Really Know Everything That Has Happened?


Omniscience

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Have you ever wondered what is God really like? The Bible says we can know God. In fact, God wants you to know Him. We cannot learn to trust God unless you first know God. The apostle Paul says that the goal of his life is to know Christ and the power of His resurrection One of the ways which we understand God is in terms of His infinite knowledge of our lives. In the book of Hebrews the writer speaks of the omniscience of God in this manner, “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare to Him to whom we must give account” (Hebrews 4:13). When describing the breadth of the knowledge of God, the psalmist says nothing in creation is hidden from God; “His understanding has no limit” (147:5).

What these verses are talking about, by theologians, is called the omniscience of God: meaning that– God knows everything. The assumption is formed by an understanding of scripture that there is no question He cannot answer, no problem that confuses Him. He’s never surprised. He’s never shocked. He never says, “Oh, really?” God knows everything, but how much is everything and what is the scope of his knowledge?

You don’t know all about yourself. That’s why you have a lot of problems because you don’t know all about yourself. I’m constantly surprising myself with the things I thought I could do that I can’t and by the things I thought I couldn’t do that I can. What happens to us in life is constantly a surprise because we really don’t know as much about ourselves as we think we do. However, God knows Himself and understands that He can do anything because His knowledge is infinite.

He knows about everything He has made. The Bible says that after God had finished making the world, He saw everything He had created and He said, “It is good” (Genesis 1:21). That’s an amazing statement — God saw everything: Every rock, every tree, every blade of grass, every fish, every bird, every animal, every star, every sand pebble. He saw everything. He was totally aware of everything that He created and He said, “It is good.” The Bible says that every time a sparrow falls to earth God notices. So God has infinite and personal knowledge about creation.

The scope of His knowledge encompasses all of history: He knows the past. He knows the present. He knows the future. He knows everything that has happened. He knows everything that is happening right now. He knows everything that will happen. And not only that, He knows everything that could have happened but didn’t and everything that can happen but won’t. He knows the scope of history from beginning to end.

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3 Responses to Does God Really Know Everything That Has Happened?

  1. aliveintheword
    March 20, 2011 at 11:42 pm

    We work so hard to define God. God neither needs nor wants to be “defined.” He wants us to KNOW Him, as in our personal relationship with Him. We can do that, in a large part, by reading our Bibles, studying our Bibles and prayer!

    • rlm4136
      March 21, 2011 at 12:10 am

      Thanks for your response. You are so right that God does not need to be defined, but he does want us to know who He is and how to engage in a relationship with Him through a relationship with Him. Jesus asked peter who do me say, I the Son of Man am? Peter defined Him in popular terms and finally in a relationship to His own life, the Christ: The Son of the Living God–the definition that is needed, asked for, and needed.. :-) Thanks God for His word!

  2. The Analyst
    March 21, 2011 at 6:27 am

    Good post.
    You wrote, “The Bible says we can know God”
    Here is the miracle I think; that while the Bible says not just that we can but that we all do know him already (Romans 1), yet while we do, it is impossible to know that Jesus is his son. The former knowledge is essential to sensible and successful life on earth, the latter to life everlasting. The former is common and seen in nature, the latter is special and by special revelation only. The former is known by all, the latter by very, very few. I find that the Bible teaches, not so much that we can know God (which is fundamental to human knowing), but that either we already do, or that it is, on the other hand, not possible to identify him. It would take a miracle ;-) I post about that.

    On your note that it’s amazing that God saw everything “That’s an amazing statement — God saw everything:” and declared it good, I have always been fascinated about when he looked on everything he had made and was NOT happy, but dissatisfied with it. Do you remember why he wasn’t entirely happy with what he had made? He saw everything, and saw into the mind and mood of Adam and that it was “not good” for him to be alone. Woman is a crown to man as she is to all creation, and what was accomplished between the two was the final pleasure of his good will, like the trim that adds the glimmer. God wasn’t just satisfied when Eve was created; it wasn’t simply her being that completed creation. He was satisfied when they were together; the sum was greater in God’s eyes than the parts we could count. That still amazes me.

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