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NASB | 1 John 3:20 in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 3:20 whenever our heart convicts us [in guilt]; for God is greater than our heart and He knows all things [nothing is hidden from Him because we are in His hands]. |
Bible Question: ACCORDING TO GENESIS SIX GOD WAS GRIEVED BECAUSE OF THE WICKED WAY THAT MANKIND WAS BEHAVING AND IT SAID THAT GOD WAS SORRY THAT HE MADE US. THE QUESTION I A ASKING WAS IF GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS WHY DID HE NOT KNOW THAT MANKIND WA GOING TO BEHAVE IN THIS WAY IN THE FIRST PLACE. |
Bible Answer: Hi, Natalie... Yes, God knows all things. This attribute of God is called "omniscience." Dr. Wayne Grudem defines it as follows: "God fully knows Himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act." I wondered about the same kind of questions you have asked here. Then one day I read where John Calvin said, "God speaks baby talk to us." God is utterly different from us. If He did not take specific action to reveal Himself to us, we could never even begin to understand Him. Even what He reveals about Himself is difficult to understand. So He makes it easy and simple for us by speaking and manifesting Himself in human terms. God is not human at all, but He talks to us often as though He were. God certainly knew that men would sin. (We're even told that His plan of redemption began before the foundations of the earth.) God also knew exactly what He would do. Nevertheless, He explains the situation in terms we can understand, so that we can get the sense of the enormous heinousness of sin and God's enormous holiness. Here are a few Scriptures that might help: Job 37:16, 1 Cor 2:10-11, 1 John 1:5, Heb 4:13, Job 28:24, Matt 10:29-30, Is 46:9-10, Psalm 139:1-2. In Him, Doc |
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