omniscience

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As the omnipotence of God is his ability to do whatever is possible, so his omniscience is his knowledge of everything knowable.

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  1. Infinite knowledge; the quality or attribute of fully knowing all things: an attribute of God. It was an instance of the Divine omniscience, who could pronounce concerning accidents at distance, as if they were present. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 300.
  2. Hence Very wide or comprehensive knowledge; a knowledge of everything.

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  • As well, 4D gave God a way to see everything in our 3D universe at once -- omniscience. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
  • With a God with whom omnipotence and omniscience were all, evil might be eternal; but why do I say to you what has been better said elsewhere LADY BYRON TO H. C. R BRIGHTON, Jan. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
  • She could ask for the talent of omniscience, and if she got that, she would soon know all about him-and that would lose him the contest. —  Yon Ill Wind
  • You're so high on your own omnipotence, omniscience, and omni-whatever that you can't think straight. —  Persephone and Hades
  • As the omnipotence of God is his ability to do whatever is possible, so his omniscience is his knowledge of everything knowable. —  Against Heresies
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  1. =F. omniscience = Spanish Portuguese omnisciencia = Italian onniscienza, from Middle Latin omniscientia, all-knowledge, from omniscien(t-)s, all-knowing: see omniscient.
 

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