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RABBI JOSEPH KRESEFSKY answers ...

G_d IS omniscient. He does know the beginning and the end.

Ps. 139:16 – “Your eyes could see me as an embryo, but in your book all my days were already written; my days had been shaped before any of them existed.”

Or consider many of the Messianic Prophecies:

Be hated without cause- Is. 49:7, Ps. 69:4, Fulfillment -John 15:24-25

Be betrayed by a friend- Ps.41:9, 55:12-14, Fulfillment – Mt. 26:21-25;47-50, John 13:18-21, Acts 1:16-18

Be sold for 30 pieces of silver- Zech. 11:12 Fulfillment – Mt. 26:15

Be struck on the cheek – Micah 5:1 Fulfillment – Mt. 27:30

Be spat on – Is. 50:6 Fulfillment – Mt. 26:67; 27:30

Be beaten – Is. 50:6 Fulfillment – Mt. 26:67; 27:26,30

Be executed by having his hands and feet pierced – Ps. 22:16, Zech. 12:10 Fulfillment – Mt. 27:35, Lk. 24:39, John 19:18, 34-37; 20:20-28, Rev. 1:7

Be executed without having a bone broken – Ex. 12:46; Ps. 34:20

Fulfillment – John 19:33-36

How could all of these detailed items of what would be done be spoken of by G_d in advance and then come to pass if He did not know All things – past, present and future.

BOB DOTY answers ...

If God is not omniscient how could He send His word through His prophets regarding the future? I Peter 1:18-20 says that God even knew that Yeshua would die on the cross before He created the earth and mankind.

EVETTE LEWIS answers ...

He gave us free will - He never said - 'I command you to Love Me!', and for the most part, we don't - we love ourselves! However, He knows us inside out and before we were even born, He knew what we would get up to. He still loves us, and the Scriptures say - Return to me and I will be a Father to you.

The Old Testament speaks of Yeshua from the first page to the last, as does the New Testament - He is the Light on the first day, and the Morning Star on the last, and Adonai is the Alpha and Omega. In terms of 'time' we can't see past clocks and calenders, whereas, He was and is and is to come!

Imagine a ring of gold - such as a Wedding ring - it has no beginning and no end - this is our G-d, and though He is in control, He allows us to make our own choices, whether beneficial or not - but one thing is for sure, He does know everything, before it even happens

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love.. Ephesions, 1v4

Malachi 4v16 Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.

17“They will be mine,” says the Lord Almighty, “in the day when I make up my treasured possession.a I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him. 18And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.

RABBI CRAWFORD answers ...

No it doesn’t as the words omniscient and omnipotent come from scripture itself. If G-d did not know the future we wouldn’t have a Bible full of prophecies for both then and now.

RABBI GUTMANN answers ...

The notion of God not knowing the future for certain, the so-called "open theistic" view does not fit with His self-revelation in Scripture. Psalm 139 clearly states that God knows the a person's thoughts, and even their words before they speak them. David states that his "days" are already written in God's "book." Also the Lord declares to Jeremiah that He knew him before he was born! Similar testimony is given by Paul in Ephesians. The idea that God is not omniscient does NOT reflect the God of the Bible in my view!

HENRY BRINKMAN answers ...

The GOD of the Bible knows the beginning from the end. HE therefore knows the future, and the ways of men. Thank GOD for that fact, for if man was capable of or responsible for his own future we would be in a real pickle. Regardless of what we do, it is within the salvation plan of almighty GOD.