Omniscience of God - Jeannie

Here it is! The meaning and significance of the Omniscience of God. :D
Let's start with the definition, shall we? :)

- Jeannie

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Omniscience-Definition

adj. knowing. Knowing all things.

Webster's New World Dictionary
Copyright 2003
pg 451
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Omniscience-Scriptures

Isaiah 40:27 "Why, O Jacob, do you say and declare, O Israel. My way and my lot are hidden from the LORD and my right is passed over without regard to my God?"

Amplified Version
Copyright 2006
Zondervan
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Psalm 139:12 "Even the darkness hides nothing from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
Amplified Version
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Zondervan
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Proverbs 8:15-16 "By Me, Kings reign and rulers decree justice. By Me, princes rule and nobles, even all the judges and diligently shall find me
Amplified Version
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Zondervan
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Matthew 6:31-32 "So do not worry, saying 'what shall we eat?' or 'what shall we drink?' or 'what shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things and your heavenly Father KNOWS you need them.

New International Version
Copyright 1976
Zondervan
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Job 9:4 "God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has ever hardened himself against Him and prospered or even been safe?

Amplified Version
Copyright 2006
Zondervan
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Matthew 10:29-30. "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered."

New International Version
Copyright 1976
Zondervan
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Luke 12:6. "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God."

New International Version
Copyright 1972
Zondervan
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I Samuel 16:7. "But the Lord said to Samuel, 'Look not on his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have rejected him...For man looks on the outward appearance but the Lord looks on the heart

Amplified Version
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I Kings 8:39. "Then hear in heaven, Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and give to every man according to his ways whose heart You know, for You and You only know the hearts of all the children of men."

Amplified Version
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Zondervan
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II Chronicles 16:9. "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are blameless towards him."

Amplified Version
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Zondervan
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Ok, last Scripture on Omniscience! I promise :P

Job 21:22. "Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing that He judges those who are on high?

Amplified Version
Copyright 2006
Zondervan
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But wait, there's MORE :DDDD

Omniscience-Commentary

1. Scripture everywhere teaches the absolute universality of the divine knowledge (Gen. 11:5, 18:21, Dt. 8:3)

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In the historical books, although there is no abstract formula, and occasional anthropomorphic reference to God's staking knowledge of things occur.

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The attributes belong not to man (Olshausen), but to God...God is wise of heart in putting one question after another, and mighty in strength in bringing to naught every attempt man may make to maintain his own right.

Commentary on the Old Testament
Job
Keil-Delitzsch
Copyright 1984
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ALLLLLLLLLLLRIGHTY then, let's move on to the significance!

Omniscience-Significance

The divine omniscience is most important for the religious life. The very essence of religion as communion with God depends on His all comprehensive cognizance of the life of man at every moment.

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It acts as a deterrent to those tempted by sin especially secret sin, and becomes a judging principle to all hypocrisy and false security.

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It lends support and comfort when the pious suffer from the misunderstanding and misrepresentation of men

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It furnishes the source from which man's desire for self-knowledge can obtain satisfaction.

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The principle is everywhere presupposed in what is related about God's cognizance of teh doings of man, about the hearing of prayer, the disclosing of teh future.

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Enjoy!!!! :DDDDDDD

Jeannie