All this has been covered in a previous post
which you did not respond to (I wonder why). Here is a link to the post:
https://talkfreethought.org/showthread.php?15861-God-Is-A-Psychopath&p=593638&viewfull=1#post593638
I didn't respond because that post was itself merely a gainsaying
response to what I had plainly stated.
You hadn't plainly stated anything. This is what you had said earlier:
Omniscience is not a burden compelling God to maintain permanent conscious awareness of anything and everything at all times in the forefront of His immediate attention. In fact it's precisely because He is omniscient that He can freely elect to know whatever His divine prerogative wishes - whenever He wishes.
Omniscience describes a subset of God"s omnipotence. The unlimited ability to know.
And "to know" is a verb.
You of course are free to hold the opinion that omniscience is defined in only one particular certain way. And I reserve the right to define it in a way which is consistent with omnipotence.
If God can't choose to be casually mindful or wilfully ignorant or selectively thoughtful, then that would constitute a limitation on God's ability. And THEN you would have a proper accusation that omniscience and omnipotence are incompatible. But they aren't and you don't.
Ask God what He is going to do tomorrow and He can rightfully answer - "ANYTHING that I want.
Who, if not an all-powerful God can afford not to worry about what will happen tomorrow?
You claimed that Biblegod is omniscient. In this context the word omniscient obviously means that he has complete knowledge of everything. Whether he chooses to "maintain conscious awareness" of this knowledge is irrelevant, whatever "maintain conscious awareness" means. God knows everything about everything, past, present and future. What that means is that Biblegod knows what will happen in the future with 100 percent certainty, or his knowledge would NOT be complete. What that means is that the future is predetermined and no changes are allowed. Not for Biblegod, and not for us humans. And that Biblegod has no free will, nor do humans. Do you dispute any of this?
That is how the logic goes. Now you are implying that the word omniscient means something else, but you won't tell us what because you know you are trapped. But for the sake of argument, feel free to educate us on how you think Biblegod's omniscience works, and how you define the word.
And just for reference, this is how the MW dictionary defines omniscience:
having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight
possessed of universal or complete knowledge
What do you want me to do? Re-post my exact same position again?
No. I would like you explain how Biblegod's omniscience works, and how this omniscience is compatible with Biblegod's alleged omnipotence. Because we are all ignorant idiots here who don't know the secret meaning of common words and how this logical inconsistency gets reconciled in your head.
You say omniscience prevents/compels God - limiting His divine prerogatives.
I didn't just say it, I demonstrated the claim with logic. Logic that you have not attempted to refute yet.
I say that God is entirely free to selectively know whatever He wants.
No he can't. Not if he has complete knowledge of everything. I just explained why, again.
And He is able to create beings with spontaneous free will - God can literally (if He wants) not know what free choice they will make.
This is insane. Now you are stating that Biblegod is not omniscient, after having stated the exact opposite. So which is it?
And note the qualifier "if he wants". How the fuck does that change anything?
For the sake of argument let us assume that Biblegod only chooses to "maintain consciousness about" certain things at certain times, just to shut the door on that nonsense, and say:
Biblegod has the ability to know what the future is with 100 percent accuracy, which would mean that the future is set in stone and cannot be changed.
Because otherwise, what he chooses to know about the future today could be different from what he might choose to know about the future tomorrow, or whenever he chooses to "maintain consciousness about" the future. Do you understand what I am saying?
Note that I said "has the ability to know", having accepted your claim that Biblegod only "maintains consciousness about" certain things and not everything.
And I really don't feel like arguing with Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is NOT the problem. Your unwillingness to commit to a rational position is.
If you don't like my definition of omniscience that fair enough.
But how about you have the intellectual grit to acknowledge that my definition DOES get around the alleged paradox you cling to.
You haven't told us how
you define omniscience in the context of Biblegod's alleged abilities. All you have done is wave your hands around with qualifiers like "maintain consciousness about" and "if He wants". That is the fucking problem here, not my lack of intellectual grit. So clear this up once and for all. I have told you how.