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Originally Posted by Phage
I always thought that omniscience was based on omnipotence, e.g. "I am all powerful. I want to know what is going on, and of course I can do that."
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For someone/something to be all powerful(be able to change and affect everything) you have to have knowledge of everything, you cannot directly change/effect something if you don't know, at least, that it is there(although you can indirectly effect it) and to be able to directly effect it in every way, you must know everything about it. And since omnipotence would include being able to directly effect anything/everything, all actions, thoughts, movements, existence, etc., you would have to know about them. But you do not have to be able to effect something to know about it. So you can be omniscient without being omnipotent, but to be omnipotent, you must be omniscient.
So to phrase that simply omnipotence is dependant on omniscience, but omniscience is independant of omnipotence.