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“Well, Whatdya Know?”

If you assume divine infinity and assume divine perfection, it’s natural to assume divine knowledge — perfect knowledge of all that can and can’t be known. God must comprehend himself fully and adequately in order to have simplicity and unity. He also — in order to donate his being to every contingent thing — must comprehend their finite and contingent modes of being, each to each. Their individuality — their singular mode of being within finite multiplicity — He knows. He knows all things that actually exist, all things that could possibly exist, all things good, all things bad. He himself defines possibility. 

If you can think of a single thing required in order to complete one’s knowledge over everything known and unknown, seen and unseen, He has it and He depends upon no one else but Himself to get and keep it. Any other source for any part of perfect intellect would come from a created being and therefore make him dependent upon another and therefore both not God and not the source of all things. 

That’s why in His eternal, unchangeable, infinite, immense, eternal, unified, undivided, self-caused knowledge of Himself and His own infinite being that God knows creatures and the things that creatures do — whether actual creatures and their histories (as in the record of the things they do) or merely possible creatures and potential histories and timelines. 

Divine knowledge is divine essence. The essence reflects all truth from and to Himself. And though that knowledge will not break down into parts — though it maintains perfect unicity or unity and simplicity — we humans need the distinctions in order to understand them because we can only hold one or two of these infinite concepts in our minds at a time, if that. Most people think they understand it and have accidentally still put limits upon the knowledge such as color imposes upon ex nihilo, sequence imposes upon eternity, and so forth. God does not suffer from these ignorances and holds them all and more inside His mind as one.

The object of his knowledge is the true. God is total truth and all truth belongs to Him.

That’s why when atheists seek the truth, they’re really seeking God.

Encourage your atheist friends to seek Truth.