Divine Knowledge

Imagine yourself sitting in a small room with only one little window to look through to the outside. The room is right beside some railway tracks. As you are sitting there, a train passes by while you are looking out of the window. Since the window is small and the distance between the train and the room is little, you can only see a portion of the train at a time. Further away, someone is standing on a tall building, and is able to view, the entire train at once.

Human beings, like the person in the small room with the small window, view the time-bound world from the narrow pigeonhole of their existence, unable to view the past and the future but only the immediate present God. however, as the Creator of the world transcends lime and space and temporal and spatial phenomena. As such, He has knowledge of everything, spanning the entire spectrum of time and the entire expanse of space.

The concept of knowledge is one with which we are all familiar. The instances of knowledge that we are familiar with, however, are limited and finite. Such knowledge, therefore, is inapplicable to God, Yet the human mind is capable of divesting of knowledge the delimiting qualifications to conceive a mode of knowledge dial is infinite and absolute. It is after subjecting the concept of knowledge to this process of mental abstraction that we may validly predicate it of God.

Argument for divine knowledge

There are different ways to demonstrate God’s all-encompassing knowledge. Below, we will consider two arguments.

Argument from Design

The spectacular order and design exhibited by the world and its phenomena clearly point to a wise, intelligent, and knowledgeable creator In other words.
order and design in the world demonstrate that the creator must have prior knowledge concerning the nature and characteristics of the creatures to have been able to engage in such awe-inspiring and mind-boggling creative activity.

This argument from design is effective in proving God’s antecedent knowledge of creation and His subsequent guidance whereby He manages the affairs of the world and maintains its order, ensuring its continuance despite its drastic rate of change and flux.

Inductive Argument

Another way to prove God’s Knowledge is to resort to the inductive argument. The inductive argument for the Divine Attributes, including knowledge, reasons that all the perfections that are found in the creatures must derive from God, and as such He must possess them, albeit with an infinitely greater degree of intensity. If God lacked the perfections displayed by the creatures, He could not have bestowed them onto the creatures.Yet, it is impossible that they could have received them from any other source. Therefore, they must have received them from God, and as such God must partake of the same perfections. Of course, it should go without saying that the perfections characteristic of created beings are plagued by privation and imperfection whereas those of the Infinite Existence of God are free of privation and defect. From this we draw the conclusion that God must be possessed of infinite and eternal knowledge; He is Omniscient.