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    It is not the case that Omniscience is one of the central divine attributes.

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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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    • 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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