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Omniscience is a little harder to gauge than omnipotence.
The Market as God 1999
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Omniscience is a little harder to gauge than omnipotence.
The Market as God 1999
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Omniscience is attributed to him: He searches all things, even the deep things of God.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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* Omniscience is a tricky word as well - it obviously doesn’t mean ‘knowing the answer to questions which are unknowable’ and some would argue that if free will exists, then at least some aspects of the future must be unknowable by definition joe from Lowell says:
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And what wilt thou answer him, the great Judge of the whole World, when he shall tell thee to thy Face, and call his Omniscience to witness,
Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712
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As for the concept of Omniscience, which is in part knowing exactly what is to come, instead of letting your body experience what you know will happen, logically you'd just "know" and have fully experienced the phenomenon without the "need" to physically go.
Comic Book Movie 2009
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In 1925, at Mexico City's House of Tiles, he painted the mural "Omniscience"; the following year, at the Industrial School in Orizaba, Veracruz, a mural depicting conditions in post-revolutionary Mexico.
Tragedy and triumph: the drama of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) 2008
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In 1925, at Mexico City's House of Tiles, he painted the mural "Omniscience"; the following year, at the Industrial School in Orizaba, Veracruz, a mural depicting conditions in post-revolutionary Mexico.
Tragedy and triumph: the drama of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) 2008
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In 1925, at Mexico City's House of Tiles, he painted the mural "Omniscience"; the following year, at the Industrial School in Orizaba, Veracruz, a mural depicting conditions in post-revolutionary Mexico.
Tragedy and triumph: the drama of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) 2008
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'Omniscience' and the like, which are but the negations of the limitations of humanity or of finite creatures.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868
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