God, the Omniscient

Solomon asserts that God is all-knowing. “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good” (Prov 15:3). No one person or thing, good or bad, escapes from His sight. “Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD” (Jer 23:24a).

Because He is the Creator of heaven and earth, including space and time, God knows their every nook and corner, as well as everything that has happened and will happen. “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done…” (Isa 46:9-10a; also Acts 15:18).

God does not only see all our actions and hear all our words, He also knows our innermost thoughts and feelings. “O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off” (Ps 139:1-2). He even knows what we are going to say even before it is formed on our lips. “Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD” (Ps 139:4, NIV). Thus, Christ told His followers: “Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him” (Matt 6:8, NIV).

Interconnectedness.

In traditional physics, the principle of separability states that connected objects once separated can no longer affect one another. Logical enough. Yet, quantum mechanics violates this principle and instead reveals a “quantum connectedness.” An object can still affect another, even when there is no longer any physical contact between them.³⁶ How is that possible?

Fred Alan Wolf says that some subatomic processes result in the creation of pairs of matter and antimatter particles. The twins have identical or closely related properties, except that these are reversed. For example, a negatively charged electron’s antimatter partner called positron has the same mass, but has an opposite positive charge (hence its name) and spins in the opposite direction.³⁷ QM predicts that attempts to measure complementary characteristics on the pair – even when traveling in opposite directions – would always fail. This had led Niels Bohr to speculate: If subatomic particles do not exist individually until they are observed, they probably do not exist as separate, independent entities. They must be parts of an indivisible whole that remains so even after their appearance.³⁸

In the earlier mentioned work of David Bohm with plasma, particles would stop behaving individually and start behaving like parts of an interconnected system. It was as though each particle knew what the trillions of other particles in the universe were doing.

In 1964 John Stewart Bell, a theoretical physicist at CERN (the European center for nuclear research in Geneva), developed a mathematical approach, now called the Bell Inequality, on how connectedness could be tested. As the level of technological precision needed was not yet available at the time, the experiment was conducted only in 1982 at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Optics in Paris. Nevertheless, just as QM had predicted, two photons, although spatially separated, appeared in contact with each other and nonlocally connected! It showed that, on the subatomic level, all things in the universe are interconnected -- nothing is separate from any of all the others.³⁹

That finding provides us with more understanding about how God knows everything that is happening anywhere, anytime. “And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account” (Heb 4:13, NKJV). God is truly omniscient – all-seeing and all-knowing.

³⁶Fred Alan Wolf, Space-Time and Beyond, 1987, pp. 135-136

³⁷Op. cit., pp. 148-149

³⁸Paraphrased by Chuck Missler, Cosmic Codes, Revised 2004, p. 337

³⁹Op. cit., pp. 339-340

(Excerpted from Chapter 1, Mysteries of Our Maker, THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD: A Primer on the Secrets of Heaven and Earth by M.M. Tauson, Amazon.com)