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God is everything and everywhere. God is all powerful.
In other words - Omnipresent and Omnipotent.
Can someone provide some examples (from any main-stream religion) that portray or indicate that God is Omniscient?
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I'll take Christianity, being that I'm a Christian...
You acknowledged God's omnipresence already, which means that He knows everything that happens in the present. Since we assume His continued omnipresence, He also knows everything in the past. As to seeing the future, I reference Deuteronomy 18:21-22:
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You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?" If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him. -- NIV
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In five minutes of searching, I could not find a passage where God specifically states that He can see the future, but from the prophecies in Scripture I get the idea that He knows. Also, the above passage was part of the law given by God to Moses, and it implies that God is omniscient. Notice that this implication stands regardless of the alleged prophet's accuracy.
There's also a theological argument:
God created everything, which includes our concept of time. Since God created time, He is above and outside of time, and thus can see all that would happen regardless of 'when' it might occur.