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Originally posted by syzygy
I'll tell you the real problem: God is not a being!
We only think of it that way because there is no other way to even begin talking about it (e.g. God=He is also God=He=She=We=It). Always keep in mind while discussing these things that we are limited beings, and God is not! Therefore any limitation you have that you project onto God is incorrect. For example: God cannot reach infinity. We, limited beings, cannot understand infinity from an individual perspective, but God can because He is That. There is no difference between Infinite Knowledge/Power and God, they are the same thing. God is not a being who "has" knowledge or power, for that would imply that He is something separate from knowledge or power. There is no separation in God, He is All.
Also keep in mind that when we say God is omniscient, that does not mean He understands things in the way we do (with limited rational understanding, or "learned", discursive knowledge). He understands it with intuitive knowledge because He is Knowledge. It is just like you "know" you exist, no one had to tell you that, it is intuitive. Discursive knowledge is indirect and mediate knowledge, and therefore relative knowledge, gained by reflection or participation. Because of its character of exteriority, which allows of the duality of subject and object, it cannot find within itself the guarantee of its truth, but must receive it from the principle which surpasses it and which is of the order of intuitive, i.e., of purely intellectual knowledge.
A very eloquent but thoroughly useless description of reality.