Becoming a theologian: God's knowledge

We continue on our exploration through God's communicable attributes and today we come to God's knowledge. God is all-knowing and a big word for this is omniscient. As we look at God's knowledge, we will examine four things.

1. God knows Himself
2. God knows everything that has happened and will happen.
3. God knows everything that can possibly happen.
4. God already knows all of this and doesn't need to learn it.

God knows Himself

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

1 Corinthians 2:10a-11

• We see here that God alone fully knows Himself.
• We also see that know man can know all of God's thoughts, but as we have established previously, that we can know God.
• Since we know that we have the Holy Spirit in us, we can begin to know and understand God.

God knows everything that has happened and will happen.

I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Isaiah 46:10

• We read here how God knows end from beginning and knows all time. God knows everything that has happened and will happen.
• We've read before in Psalm 139 how all the days of our life were written by God before one came to be.
• We can always remember what has happened. Sometimes, God gives us insight into what will happen through prophecy, dreams, or visions.

God knows everything that could possibly happen.

"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 11:21

• When Jesus made this statement, Tyre and Sidon were a distant memory.
• Yet, Jesus speaks with authority that if Tyre and Sidon were to have seen the miracles they would have repented.
• This is one of those things that we can't emprically prove, but to me, if Jesus said so, it's good enough for me.

God already knows what he knows

And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Matthew 10:30

• How many hairs are on your head?
• How would you find out? You would have to count
• God knows the number of hairs on your head, He doesn't have to count!