Argument for Omniscience - Food for thought
Here is some food for thought. I have just begun thinking this through, but I decided to put it out there. I am thinking through an argument for a Biblical defense of God’s omniscience that coincides with the Kalam cosmological argument. More strictly, it belongs to the philosophical argument of the impossibility of an actual infinity. The argument (very sloppy deductive structure so far) would be:
- Timelessness could be and is quite possibly only a contingent property for God
- God’s knowledge is most likely not in propositional form (much thanks to William Alston)
- A person who remembers, anticipates, reflects, and so forth…. would at the least be in a sort of metaphysical change
- Even without physical time, metaphysical time cannot be infinite, for it would be impossible to gather an infinite set of metaphysical moments
- To avoid this metaphysical infinite, one would have to be in some sort of vegetative form (one would still have to prove that God would be considered to have knowledge then), or omniscient with simply intuitive immediate awareness of all facts
- If God was in this vegetative form, then how could there be any first mover?
- Therefore God is omniscient with simply intuitive immediate awareness of all facts
Granted as I stated above I am still thinking through all possibilities and I may think my way out of this argument or dig myself deeper in it with further changes and analysis. It may be an in house argument that may need a teleological argument attached. There are some obvious points that would need arguments as well with additional sub points. It is interesting though to think about this. Either way it seems God would have to be very intelligent!
Ryan Willert