by Samantha » Mon Sep 14, 2020 12:11 pm
Wouldn't omniscience be included within omnipotence? If something has the power to do anything, doesn't that necessarily include the power to have knowledge of everything? Or conversely, I could say that total knowledge of everything includes the knowledge of how to effect the world in such a way as to bring about any event, i.e. the knowledge of how to be all-powerful. All-powerful and all-knowing just sound like the same property to me. So why do you monotheists usually treat them like they're two separate things?
Wouldn't omniscience be included within omnipotence? If something has the power to do anything, doesn't that necessarily include the power to have knowledge of everything? Or conversely, I could say that total knowledge of everything includes the knowledge of how to effect the world in such a way as to bring about any event, i.e. the knowledge of how to be all-powerful. All-powerful and all-knowing just sound like the same property to me. So why do you monotheists usually treat them like they're two separate things?