Everybody understands the definition of Omniscient as someone who literally knows everything (insert ex-husband/wife joke here). We can’t think of a religion that doesn’t have an omniscient creator. And why not? Who would subscribe to a higher power that’s a total dumbass compared to the creator down the street?
Knowing everything means knowing “incorrect” things as well. For every correct/useful/meaningful item, there’s a very large (possibly infinite) number of incorrect/not-useful/not-meaningful things to know. While knowing everything would probably include knowing the difference between meaningful and not meaningful, things only get worse from here.
There’s another problem with this divine property. It is very limiting.
Thou shalt not limit God
An omniscient being, if it were to exist, could not grow, evolve, learn, or experience anything new. If you were omniscient, how could you learn anything that you don’t already know? It literally defies the definition.
Growth is a pretty general word, but in non-physical terms, it means to become more. If you want it to mean emotional growth, then omniscience limits that too (as every possible destination personality already exists in its entirety from the beginning). Whatever your definition, the analogous infinite terms (omnipresent, all-powerful, etc) would similarly limit growth. Evolve? Just another word for growth.
Maybe even more relevant to a would-be creator is the inability to experience anything new, ever. Any omniscient being would already have a memory or awareness of experiencing everything a million times over (or infinite) in a million different ways (or infinite). The creation of anything would provide zero benefits to an omniscient creator.
An eternity of being unable to grow or change would be as dull as death. More than dull, in fact, it would be the same thing. Science has a similar notion for one possible end of the physical universe, called heat death.
Our very simple fix
If we tweak the accepted definition just a little, we arrive at a meaning of omniscience that works with all the channeled teachings!
God knows all there is to know…. so far.
Omniscience
The state of knowing all there is to know
What’s the difference? Knowing all there is to know means you can learn as more becomes available. You can grow. You can expand all that’s known. The verse can expand. Creation can express. God can now create countless (“uni”)verses of (humanly) unimaginable formats and be taken along for the ride. Each physical universe can have innumerable parallel realities if the creator wishes to explore every meaningful path.
Every decision from every vantage point in every reality grows all that’s known and therefore, all that is. God becomes more. Heat death avoided.
This distinction is going to become important every time we discuss why anything even exists.
