Omniscience vs. Free Will
Omniscience vs. God
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There are in fact a host of other characteristics normally attributed to traditional gods in the West which also fundamentally conflict with the idea of omniscience. The most obvious, of course, is the attribute of having a non-physical nature. As we already observed, knowledge involves fundamentally physical and material processes, and it does not appear to make any sense to attribute it to a vague non-physical entity. But more significant is the fact that this non-physical nature conflicts with some types of knowledge inherently. If you'll remember, one type of knowledge which we discussed was process knowledge - the knowledge of how to do things like juggling or gymnastics. It is significant that such knowledge involves more than what one would get from reading a book because that seems to be the limit of what a god could do.
Why? Because it makes no sense to claim that a non-physical entity "knows" how to do the physical acts involved with things like juggling and gymnastics like we know them. Part of what it means to know such skills is a demonstrated ability to do them, not simply to be able to repeat what instruction books say. Having such knowledge of how to do such physical acts requires that one is in space an time, so a non-physical god existing outside of space and time is simply incapable of having such knowledge.
Some Christians might argue that their god did acquire such knowledge when it was incarnated as Jesus, but Jesus certainly didn't acquire all procedural knowledge during his brief stint on earth, especially in areas like driving a car. Christians have in fact vehemently argued that Jesus definitely lacked such knowledge in areas like sex. Besides, this would mean that god knew these things for a brief time, and omniscience doesn't mean much if it is only intermittent. Thus, being non-physical and transcendent is incompatible with omniscience - a god which is supposed to be both cannot exist.
Another characteristic contradiction is that between omniscience and omnipotence. Complicated proofs of this have been devised, but I find that the simplest can be the most effective. An omnipotent god can achieve whatever it wants in the pursuit of its goals. This means that it cannot experience things like frustration, fear or horror. And of course, this god cannot know what it is to make a mistake. So a transcendent god without limitations cannot know things which we know due to our inherently limited nature, and it is reasonable to think that a god which is both omniscient and omnipotent cannot exist.
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