My Very Own Omnibus

Omnipresence: check. Omnipotence: check. Omniscience: next up. When we regard any of these characteristics from the anthropomorphic perspective we inevitably end up with Superman, able to leap tall buildings, faster than a speeding bullet, and so on. It is understandable that we construct an image of the unimaginable in our own image because that is what we have to work with. To say that God “knows everything” in the sense that we know things is very misleading. Of course God is omniscient in that knowledge is part of the whole, but to attach human elements of cognition, perception, etc, utterly limits the something that is everything, including thought and knowledge. These are our terms used to explain as best we can what we are and what we do, but they are wholly inappropriate when projected onto God. We’re back to the early Hebrew understanding that little more can be said of God than “I Am”.