So... psychics can see into the future, but God cannot...
God was shocked two people practically born yesterday disobeyed Him.
At any rate, I doubt that God, as portrayed in the bible, anyway, can tell the future. It's more like "I want to do X, so I'm going to ensure X happens." When it DOESN'T happen, He comes up with some excuse.
Which is another way of pointing out that the concept of an OMNI god is theologically silly.
Yes. Ancient gods weren't written that way, which explains Yahweh a LOT. Ancient gods were, more or less, just humans with super powers, limited to their jurisdictions, like "god of this blade of grass over here" or "goddess of weaving textiles" or whatever. Any boasting of all-powerfulness was just that: boasting. Unsupported boasting.
If your God is in control of all things, and he can see/knows the future, then why does not your God change the present for the betterment of the future?
Bettering the future would hurt "BibleGod's" ego. What will better the world consists of things He is supposedly against, so He will would rather watch the world burn than fix it.
Yes, but I think that there are Biblical and non-Biblical reasons for wanting to believe that God is not omniscient, only knowledgable enough to have created the Universe.
How much effort does it take? Other gods or goddesses create the world or the universe or whatever by just carving up their bodies or something. That's not really rocket science.
Like a clock maker may know the likelihood of the small hand making a full rotation to count 60 seconds but the clock maker does not know when the hand will stop moving if the clock is powered by a battery.
Yes, he does: it will stop moving when the battery no longer has the energy to move the pieces of the clock.
God does not intervene because God may choose not to
So, He's negligent.
The future, by definition, hasn't happened so you can't see it. Of course that doesn't mean that you can't say what is likely to happen on the basis of the present. The is applies to gods as much as to humans, although obviously they are better at forecasting than we are since they are cleverer and more knowledgeable.
Like, many gods lived on mountains. They would tell their followers about troop movements, storms, etc. However, that's not supernatural: they are at a higher elevation and can see it going on.
Has anyone thought maybe God has too much faith in mankind?
Given God seems to gripe about everything we do or don't do, clearly we aren't on His "special" list.
Adam was a dirt robot. His job was to do as God said.
Mankind chose to do everything that God told us from the beginning was bad for us.
Given that God was less than honest about the real reason we shouldn't eat from the Tree of Knowledge, it's clear God will make things up to get His way.
I appreciate that my dogs have their own personalities and needs. God does not appear to, as He punishes those who don't follow His words to the letter. I understand respect more than the God of the Bible. Unless their safety is an emergency situation, if my dogs say no, I let them say no. I don't get angry (much) or depressed that they aren't listening to me. I accept they are sentient beings with independent minds.
God is not one or the other. He is everything. And much more. He is all knowing, he can see the future, he can change the future, he can see every single possible outcome of any situation, etc. Trying to understand God is impossible.
I can understand it just fine: ancient gods were flawed and mostly superhuman. Some ancient Greek philosopher started whining about Ideal Forms and it seeped into the religious tradition that wasn't founded on such thoughts, and we get a contradictory god who is omni-everything because Plato said so but can't heal John the Baptist or tell a Hebrew from an Egyptian during a murder spree without Hebrews tagging themselves.
Think about it, he created literally everything.
Except He didn't. He claims it, but older, more polytheistic passages note Yahweh was assigned Hebrews as their sea/war god. El was the Boss at that time and even HE didn't create everything because Earth and Sky bore Him in the first place, like Cronus. You can't create your parents.
How about you prove that God is not all-knowing and cannot see into the future? Good luck with that.
Why is Jesus shocked that gentiles can have faith? Wouldn't an omniscient being know this?
Why is pi off? Can't God do math?
Why does God not know that if He creates a being in His image, that being will want to be like Him because HE wants to be Him?
Why can God's armies be defeated by chariots of iron? We're not even talking about weapons, just vehicles. We have guns now, and missiles. No wonder God's armies don't seem to be around.
