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the Platonic ideal of God would necessarily be all knowing, wouldn't it? Supreme goodness and power (knowledge)(as in the fruit of the tree of knowledge...see Genesis)
in the spirit of what thejoker130 said about God being the clockmaker, with us figuring it out....
We can't know if God is all-knowing, except from our POV. I think the "clock" is pretty magnificent, infinitely beyond my understanding. If there is a difference between what created the "clock" (reality) and what is "all-knowing", I don't know what it is, and I never will.
we assume order and purpose and meaning, ethically, spiritually, and otherwise. These thoughts, ideals comfort us, intellectually and emotionally. God being "all-knowing" I guess is the logical end to this thinking, but it's a red herring to attempt to prove these things we will never prove. God's existence just doesn't get sucked into an argument about what is "known", which is so subjective, anthropomorphic. In the end it can only be a matter within the framework of faith and hope, not science and reason. To accept the premise of all-knowing is to accept the premise of God in the first place.
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