The Omniscience of God

"The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good" (Proverbs 15:3).

This verse addresses so many common errors in our day.

The worst is also the most common. As I have written elsewhere, Americans may be overwhelmingly professing Christians, but that profession is false. The true religion of most Americans in Deism. We talk about God, even about Jesus, but that profession has no impact on our lives. We live as if we are atheists, treating God as a doddering grandfather who is restricted to heaven and church. However, as Solomon wrote in this proverb, God is under no such restriction. He is omnipresent, and aware of every act we perform or thought that passes through our hearts. And He judges us accordingly.

The reverse side of that implicit Deism is the Open Theists, who claim that God is learning as contingent events occur. That is, that He cannot have exhaustive knowledge of events because those events depend on the supposedly-autonomous decisions of men or chance. Again, that doctrine is refuted, because God has exactly what the Open Theists deny, i. e., exhaustive knowledge.

It refutes the pseudo-Christian sects which try to downgrade the deity of God by denying His omniscience. Jehovah's Witnesses explicitly deny that God is omniscient, for some of the same reasons as the Open Theists. An all-knowing God must be an all-determining God, and the Watchtower cannot accept such a concept. Mormons have demoted God to a mere exalted man, which necessarily precludes attributes that are different in kind from those of humans, such as omniscience.

It also refutes the idea that the triune biblical God of the Bible is the God only of Christians, but has no claim or relevance to those who sincerely follow other religions. Jehovah claims universal jurisdiction. Therefore, followers of other religions are not sincere but misguided; they are, instead, rebels against their proper creator and ruler, and He knows who each one is.