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2 Revelation is from God by the ministry of angels; 3–8 God the Creator, as his works testify; 9 God the true instructor of man; 10–14 His works in heaven, earth, and sea described; 15 The earth made firm by the mountains; 16 The stars appointed to guide man; 17 God not to be compared to idols; 18–19 God merciful and omniscient
2-4 God manifests himself to man in his works; 5 The unbelievers deny the resurrection; 6 Their punishment; 7 Threatened judgments sure to come to pass; 8 Unbelievers demand a sign; 9-12 God is omniscient; 12 God's purposes are unchangeable; 13-14 Thunder and lightning indicates the unceasing works of angels who regulate the clouds and rains in ...
Kenneth Einar Himma claimed that omniscience and omnipotence may be incompatible: if God is omnipotent, then he should be able to create a being with free will; if he is omniscient, then he should know exactly what such a being will do (which may technically render them without free will). This analysis would render the ontological argument ...
Epicurus was not an atheist, although he rejected the idea of a god concerned with human affairs; followers of Epicureanism denied the idea that there was no god. While the conception of a supreme, happy and blessed god was the most popular during his time, Epicurus rejected such a notion, as he considered it too heavy a burden for a god to have to worry about all the problems in the world.
God in Islam is attributed with absolute omniscience. God knows the past, the present, and the future. It is compulsory for a Muslim to believe that God is indeed omniscient as stated in one of the six articles of faith which is: To believe that God's divine decree and predestination; Say: Do you instruct God about your religion?
If God does know this, either their free will might be illusory or foreknowledge does not imply predestination, and if God does not know it, God may not be omniscient. [81] Open Theism limits God's omniscience by contending that, due to the nature of time, God's omniscience does not mean the deity can predict the future and process theology ...
In Islamic theology, the attributes (ṣifāt, also meaning "property" or "quality" [1]) of God can be defined in one of two ways. Under divine simplicity, the attributes of God are verbal descriptions understood apophatically (negatively). God being "powerful" does not impute a distinct quality of "power" to God's essence but is merely to say ...
The Kalam cosmological argument was influenced by the concept of the prime mover, introduced by Aristotle.It originates in the works of theologian and philosopher John Philoponus (490–570 AD) [10] and was developed substantially under the medieval Islamic scholastic tradition during the Islamic Golden Age.