Omniscience

In understanding God, who he is and what his role is in relationship to humanity, it offers an opportunity to increase our knowledge of God’s character, draw deeper into his presences and understand how our relationship with him is reciprocal and helps is developing a theology of waiting. Along with understanding God, it is important for humanity to understand itself in the development of a perspective of waiting that is applicable. In identifying inner movements during times of waiting, it may…

For Descartes, things are sure paying little mind to sense experience and it appears to be rationally unthinkably to think about them as false. Given this, Descartes builds up his reasoning for the existence of God as an all-perfect being. He does this by starting with a thought that is viewed as sure and ascribing what makes us feel as though something is sure. For this situation he considers something sure as something so plainly and strikingly saw that it can't be untrue. Here he infers then…

Leibniz’s and Russell’s view on this theodicy, respectively, in order to examine the whether presence of evil in the world alludes to God’s existence. The problem of evil focuses on how to reconcile the existence of a God with divine attributes - omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence - with the presence of evil in the world. Leibniz’s stance on the problem of evil relies heavily upon the principle of sufficient reason, which states that it would be irrational for anything to be without…

interesting questions raised by Moore involve those surrounding the character known as Doctor Manhattan. In particular, the way in which Dr. Manhattan perceives time asks the reader to contemplate a theological quandary as old as monotheism: does omniscience negate the concept of free will? It’s a purely philosophical question with no definitive…

How many times have you found yourself desiring the ability to read another person’s mind? It would certainly be a helpful ability to have. Imagine how much simpler communication would be with our spouses and with our children. The ability to communicate with mentally and physically disabled people would also be a boon to everyone’s lives. In the Star Wars series of movies, reading, and even manipulating, another person’s mind is possible. The first installment of that franchise sees Obi Wan…

Oedipus the King derives from Greek mythology and embodies the typical Greek tragedy—the conflict between a man and his fate. As the playwright is unable to shake off the then deep-rooted idea of fate, Oedipus cannot escape the oracle which embodies his fate. But as a result of the playwright’s strong dissatisfaction with fate, he believes that Oedipus does not intentionally kill his father and marry his mother and is a hero who rids the people of an evil and is loved by the people instead of a…

The narrator has limited omniscience because Mrs. Mallard’s feelings and thoughts are described throughout the story. For example, the narrator describes her as “pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul” (Chopin) in the beginning of the story. This limited omniscience allows the story to unfold because it shows the reader Mrs. Mallard’s transformation from being held down…

provide the maximum benefits to society, while producing the minimum harms. In other words, they are looking for net good over net bad (Treviño & Nelson, 2014). While looking through the Utilitarian lenses, the rights of minorities are forgotten and omniscience is…

The purpose of John 4b-15 is the coming of the Holy Spirit to act as Christ’s substitute on earth and the benefit of the Holy Spirit coming for three main reasons. One: Convicting of the world (verse eight). Two: Guiding into all truth, and speaking on Christ’s behalf (verse 13). Three: Glorify Christ and declare what is His (verse 14). This is important because once Jesus went to be with the Father the Holy Spirit would continue God’s plan of salvation to humankind concerning sin, righteousness…

as the platform from which Susie Salmon was raped and murdered; by a neighbor at the age of fourteen. Heaven indeed has many “mansions,” one of which is the “wide wide Heaven,” which can provide one’s every desire. The powerful Deity also grants omniscience to the narrator. The word Susie’s grandfather has for the dominant quality of this heaven is “comfort,” and oddly comforting, indeed, is Alice Sebold’s novel because the text postulates a vision of heaven. The book has an “intake” level…