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NASB | Psalm 48:10 As is Your name, O God, So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 48:10 As is Your name, O God, So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness (rightness, justice). |
Bible Question: 2 Chronicles. 32:31 states God tested him so He (God) could know all that was in his heart. This is said of Abraham also etc. How can we reconcile this with the doctrine that God is Omniscient? |
Bible Answer: rckeel - If you will carefully and laboriously ponder the following passages and compare them to the passage in 2 Chronicles 32:31, perhaps you will gain a greater understanding of the doctrine of God as revealed in His word. Here are the passages, to some of which I've parenthetically inserted an occasional remark: Deut. 8:2 ..... Gen. 3:9 (did not God know the answer to His question to Adam, "Where art thou?") ..... Gen. 3:11 (do you suppose He who created the universe ex nihilo would be ignorant of whether Adam had eaten of the forbidden tree?) ..... And in the Book of Job you will find a remarkable thing. The omniscient God asks his servant job a grand total of 83 questions, 39 in Job 38 alone. All 83 questions are recorded in Job 38:1-41:34. Do you for a moment believe that God was asking Job all those questions for the purpose of adding to His own knowledge -- or did He have some other purpose in view? Obviously Job was stumped by God's questions; he couldn't answer a single one of them. The significant thing about these questions, first of all, is that Job didn't have a clue what the answers were. And the second thing is that God is driving home the point, in a way that Job could understand, that Job must resign himself to letting God be God, the sovereign omnipotent, omniscient and transcendent Creator who answers to no one. ...... John Calvin is on record as saying that God often talks to His people in baby talk. The Bible is replete with examples of this -- from earthy parables to anthropomorphisms -- which God chose as vehicles by which to reveal Himself to mankind in ways they can comprehend. ..... But let us never think of God Almighty as being anything less than absolutely sovereign and absolutely omniscient. "O LORD, you have searched me and known me: You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O LORD, You know it altogether" (Psalm 139:1-4). --Hank |
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Hank | ||
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ebrain |