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    Omniscience is one of the central divine attributes. — Carmelics
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    Omniscience is one of the central divine attributes.

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    • 1.Numerous biblical passages ascribe vast knowledge to God, such as Job 12:13 and Rom. 11:33.
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    • 2.The requirements of formulating theological doctrines such as divine providence presuppose that God has complete knowledge.
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    • 1.Process theologians like Whitehead and Hartshorne argue God's perfection consists in maximal responsiveness to a changing world, not static total knowledge.
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    • 2.If God perfectly knows all future free acts, creaturely libertarian freedom is eliminated, making omniscience incompatible with a morally serious theodicy.
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    • 3.A God who learns and grows in knowledge alongside creation better satisfies biblical depictions of divine responsiveness than a timeless omniscient being.
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    • 1.The biblical texts cited employ poetic and doxological language not intended as precise metaphysical attributions of unlimited epistemic scope.
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    • 2.Systematic theological attributes like omniscience are Hellenistic philosophical impositions onto Hebrew scriptural sources, as argued by scholars including James Barr.
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    • 3.Providence requires only that God possess sufficient knowledge to govern creation, not logically exhaustive knowledge of all true propositions.
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    Omniscience is the property of having complete or maximal knowledge. Along with omnipotence and perfect goodness, it is usually taken to be one of the central divine attributes. One source of the attribution of omniscience to God derives from the numerous biblical passages that ascribe vast knowledge to him. St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae I, q. 14), in his discussion of the knowledge of God, cites such texts as Job 12:13: “With God are wisdom and strength; he has counsel and understanding” and Rom. 11:33: “O the depths of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!” Another source is pro...
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states that omniscience is "usually taken to be one of the central divine attributes" and then provides two sources supporting this attribution—biblical passages and theological doctrine requirements—which correspond directly to the two premises in the extracted argument.

    Confidence: The text presents two sources of support for attributing omniscience to God. The argument structure is fairly clear.

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