The Omniscience of God: Knowledge
The Omniscience of God can be described as one of his communicable attributes. In this instance, I desire to look into one aspect of his mental attributes, which is his knowledge. By this it is meant that God's perfect and eternal knowledge of all things which are objects of knowledge, whether they be actual or possible, past, present, or future. A simple definition is that God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple eternal act. Elihu says that God is the one "who is perfect in knowledge" (Job 37:16) , and John says that God "knows everything" (1 John 3:20). This quality of knowing everything is omniscience, and because God knows everything, his therefore omniscient (all-knowing). In Latin, omnis means "all" and sciens means "knowing". Captured in this definition is first, God fully knows himself. His own being is unlimited and infinite. So only one who is infinite can fully...