For those inquiring minds, here is some information from Nashville 08 By Ray. This should provide some food for thought or more discussion after a good read.Nashville Conference 08 - Where Did God Get Knowledge? audio #10 - video #7
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,8831.msg73653.html#msg73653Excerpt from: Where Did God Get Knowledge ?
I asked the question; Did God have a master plan when He created the universe? Did He have something in mind? Where did that come from? It must have been something He always had in mind.
It’s like He said: ‘I always wanted to build the universe.’
And you say: Really for how long?
‘Oh I always dreamt that way.’
Yea?
‘Yea.’
Do you think you will ever do it?
‘Ahh, maybe someday.’
[laugher] Seriously, follow me.
Well is it a good plan.
‘Oh yea, it’s a good plan.’
Well why don’t you do it now?
‘Well okay maybe I will do it now.’
Did God always have this plan? You see we get this thing that God has always been everything that He is. God says He doesn’t change. It doesn‘t say that He says He has all knowledge. Oh yea, well where did He get it? I don’t doubt that God has all knowledge, but where did He get it? ‘Well He always had it.’ Do you have chapter and verse on that?
[Comment: Is, was and always will be] Jesus said that. But He was a created being. He came out from the Father. But now that He did, “He is,” He’s alive today, resurrected from the dead. “He was,” He was the one who created everything, He was the one that died for the sins of man and “He always will be.” That’s true. But even if you were to say that of the Father, that He is and was and always will be, there is still no statement that He always was what He is.
Does God learn? You say, ‘Ray it is sacrilege to talk like that.’ Well I’m sorry, but I think about this and I’ve talked to God about stuff like this and I don’t believe that I’m sacrilege at all. I honor God, I worship God.
Coming in here to learn this stuff this is worship. Waving your hands and falling over backwards and foaming at the mouth, that’s not worship. Learning the truths of God and saying, ‘I believe that and I can see that, this is wise, it is wisdom and this will help me be the kind of person that God wants.’ That is worship. You believe and you obey God, that’s worship.
Does God Learn ?
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