@neologist,
neologist wrote:
oralloy wrote:Therefore it does not cause people to worry about having to explain their behavior to God when they die.
Actually, when you're dead, you're dead. No roasting toasting, boiling or broiling.
So, no 'splaining, neither. - Ecclesiastes 9:6
I was only trying to humor him in his hypothetical so show the hypothetical doesn't make any sense. An all knowing god wouldn't be asking you any questions at all. It doesn't make any sense as to why it would even open it's mouth to speak. It would already know.
But the bible is not even consistent on this trait. Even in Genesis it points out this fact. God asks where Adam and Eve are hiding and asks them why they are hiding. If it was an all knowing god, why would it need to ask, it would know exactly where they are and why they are doing it.
In fact you can take it to another level. If the Adam and Eve story is true and god is all knowing, he would have known even before creating them that they would eventually disobey him. That they disregard his commandment. Yet he carried out creating them and telling them not to partake of eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge. All these events contradict an all knowing god.
The only rational conclusion you can come to is that either god is NOT all knowing, or purposely wanted things to turn out how they did. He makes commandments knowing all to well that they will be broken. He creates the world knowing that he will have to destroy it. None of it makes any sense unless you realize that all these stories were just made up by people who didn't realize they were creating a narrative that was inconsistent. Just like in hollywood movies.