{"id":7930,"date":"2020-07-30T19:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T16:11:17","slug":"god-does-not-know-some-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=7930","title":{"rendered":"God Does Not Know Some Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">\u00a0[<strong>Note:\u00a0 <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 1<\/strong>\u00a0 page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In numerous statements the Bible proclaims God\u2019s omniscience\u2014He knows all things (Rom. 11:33\u201334; 1 John 3:20b; et al.). Despite these plain averments, the Bible also reveals some things God does <strong>not <\/strong>know. This claim, however, doesn\u2019t imply any weakness in God; any such limitations are entirely self-imposed. Consider some things God does <strong>not <\/strong>know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A sinless responsible human being. <\/strong>\u201cFor all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God\u201d (Rom. 3: 23; cf. 1 John 1:8; et al.). Note: Scripture says that \u201call have sinned,\u201d not that \u201call have inherited Adam\u2019s sin.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>A sinner whom God does not love. <\/strong>\u201cFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life\u201d (John 3:16; Rom. 5:8; et al.). God loves even the most sinful and debauched, and He wants all of them to be saved.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A sinner for whom Christ did not die. <\/strong>Christ Jesus \u201cgave himself a ransom for all\u201d (1 Tim. 2:6; cf. 1 John 2:2; cf. Isa. 53:6; et al.). John Calvin, not Jesus Christ, invented the doctrine of the \u201climited atonement.\u201d All sinners have an equal opportunity for salvation through Christ.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anyone who will be saved outside of Christ. <\/strong>\u201cAnd in none other [than Jesus Christ] is there salvation: for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved\u201d (Acts 4:12; cf. Eph. 1:3; Col. 1:14; 1 John 5:11; et al.). Jesus therefore said, \u201cI am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me\u201d (John 14:6).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anyone who is \u201cin\u201d Christ without being baptized. \u201c<\/strong>Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?\u201d (Rom. 6:3). \u201cFor as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ\u201d (Gal. 3: 27). To claim to be \u201cin\u201d Christ without having been Scripturally baptized is to claim to know more than God knows.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anyone\u2019s entering Heaven without being saved on earth. <\/strong>Jesus said to unbelievers in His time, \u201cI go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come\u201d (John 8:21). He also said, \u201cBlessed are the dead who die in the Lord&#8230;\u201d (Rev. 14:13). Several centuries after the New Testament was completed, uninspired men invented the doctrine of purgatory and all other doctrines of a \u201csecond chance.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Any responsible person who will escape the Judgment. <\/strong>\u201cFor we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad\u201d (2 Cor. 5:10). Everyone will keep this appointment (Heb. 9:27).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">\u00a0[<strong>Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it appeared in the <em>Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, August 29, 2008].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong> From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0\u00a0[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0 page.] In numerous statements the Bible proclaims God\u2019s omniscience\u2014He knows all things (Rom. 11:33\u201334; 1 John 3:20b; et al.). Despite these plain averments, the Bible also reveals some things God does&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=7930\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  God Does Not Know Some Things<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,137,193,115,60,102,370,369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baptism","category-deity-of","category-god-2","category-god","category-heaven","category-love","category-omnipotence","category-omniscience","wpcat-37-id","wpcat-137-id","wpcat-193-id","wpcat-115-id","wpcat-60-id","wpcat-102-id","wpcat-370-id","wpcat-369-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23155,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions\/23155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}