How can God be omniscient if there is an endless number of things to know?

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There is an infinite number of propositions. One way of seeing this is realizing that there is an infinite number of, well, numbers. So does God know all numbers? Or not? How could he if there is no last number?

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Why would God, who creted everything…not have access to all the answers? He’s God.
 
I’m not sure I would say there’s an infinite number of propositions. For example, it is impossible for me to become God, so that cannot be a proposition.
 
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There is an infinite number of propositions. One way of seeing this is realizing that there is an infinite number of, well, numbers. So does God know all numbers? Or not? How could he if there is no last number?

Any light on this would help!
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It must be possible because God is omnipresent.
 
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That would be like saying God can make a circle with four corners because he’s God. To say that God can make me God is a logical contradiction.
 
I could give you a couple of poor analogies to ponder, to stretch understanding of innumerable possibiities

A glimpse into an approximation of information within the internet in 2016

https://www.livescience.com/54094-how-big-is-the-internet.html
a glimpse into the size of the universe…a light year is the distance that light can travel in one year. Light moves at a velocity of about 300,000 kilometers (km) each second. So in one year, it can travel nearly 10 trillion kilometers(l9,500,000,000,000 kilometers.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160610-it-took-centuries-but-we-now-know-the-size-of-the-universe
https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question19.html

God the creator of this vast universe, has power and understanding beyond these created possibilities
 
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Well, the thing is i don’t know how God can have actual knowledge of a never ending potential infinite, but all his attributes follow necessarily from one another which follows necessarily from his act of existence.

God isn’t a being in existence, rather all potential beings exist inside God, there is nowhere where God is not because there is nothing outside of God. We move and have our being in God. So its not ontologically possible for God not to know everything.

I think this is one of those cases where what seems to be contradictory really is just a limitation in our capacity to know things. We cannot know a never ending potential infinite so we assume that such a thing cannot be grasped.
 
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Because God exists outside of our reference for time. He observes before the choice is made, as it’s made, and after its made. There’s nothing to watch if we didn’t make one of the choices, so he doesn’t even have to worry about it. But I’m sure he could if he needed to.
 
Remember we are created and God is uncreated. The uncreated nature of God is ultimately a mystery to us. We have been given a limited revelation through the prophets, apostles, saints and of course, Jesus Christ. But we may never fully understand God, even in the life to come.
 
Sorry, i was not replying to you. i was replying to the first post. You are correct. You cannot be God.
 
I’d say then that there are, in fact, not an infinite number of propositions. The only possible propositions are ones that follow one’s nature. They may seem extremely numerous, in this case, but they are not infinite.
 
Is this a joke? God…is eternal, infinite right? I mean I think he can handle math. He invented it.
 
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A finite being can only have a finite amount of knowledge, partly because they created nothing. An infinite being can have an infinite amount of knowledge because they created everything.
 
I don’t think you really get what I’m asking.

I used numbers to illustrate the fact there is a an infinite, never-ending, number of propositions.

God knows 2+2=4… and that 2+3=5… and so on. Saying he knows all math just illustrates what I’m asking: How does God know all math when the content of mathematics is infinite. It’s not like there is ever a final point where one can say “Ah! I finally know everything there is to know about math!” And that just serves to illustrate that one can’t ever know everything, at all.

SO how does God know them all, if there is not a complete collection of things to be known? There is an infinite. And yet God must know all things at once, in the eternal now… Yet there is an infinite, endless, number of things TO know.
 
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God himself is infinite, measureless, boundless, limitless. God perfectly understands and comprehends himself, his infinite and eternal being. So God can know infinite things because he himself is infinite. It is not against the idea of the infinite to be comprehended by the infinite.
 
I agree that God is infinite and can comprehend Himself. But the infinite quality of God is just that, a quality. Understanding the infinite and an infinite number of possibilities are two different things.
 
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