Logic Puzzles: God's Characteristics

Here I am suggesting a different set of definitions for God's attributes, which should provide a concise understanding of Deity and its many forms.

Omniscient: can know all potentials
Omnipotent: can actualize all potentials
Omnipresent: can experience all potentials

In the eternal future, all potentials can be synonymous with absolute potential, which could lead to absolute knowledge, absolute power and absolute experience. This at least partially describes the Deity Absolute. However, to the Father (or Trinity), knowledge and power are existential qualities, and omnipresence is certainly seen in God the Sevenfold.

It is important to note here the difference between existential and experiential traits. Let's use knowledge as an example. There is a difference between knowing something and being capable of knowing something. This can be further broken up into present and future tenses (knowing now, knowing in future, can know now, can know in future). The main question for now is: Does omniscience normally mean you know everything, or that you can know everything?

Knowing everything would be an existential trait (being absolute), acting as a part of your existence. Having the ability to know everything means that knowing everything is not necessarily existential, as you can choose what knowledge to possess. It is more like a potential absolute. Another existential trait could be the ability to learn absolutely everything, but this wouldn’t really make sense without time as you would know everything you want to know at all times. So in timelessness, I would think existential traits would be absolute traits, as a storage of knowledge which does not include everything would be finite. What am I really saying here? Well, there could be both existential omniscience and volitional omniscience (though volitional omniscience sounds contradictory outside of time).

Volitional omniscience sounds experiential, and may have to be to exist, but does not need to be categorized as time-dependent when dealing with what one knows now. Knowing something in the future is time-dependent. Coming to know something through time is experience. But will the Supreme come to know everything as time progresses into the eternal future? How about the Ultimate or Absolute? In other words, does Deity come to know everything as time passes, or can it choose what it learns through time? The former is an example of experiential existential omniscience, the latter experiential volitional omniscience. Asking whether either of these exists is the same as asking if the experiencing of either eventual or potential knowledge can act as an existential trait of Deity (assuming this is absolute eventual or potential knowledge).

Such traits can even be split up further into the realms of finite information, but would not count as omniscience at that point. Examples would include being forced to learn an amount of finite information, or being capable of learning this information. Still, this brings up one last topic: Is finiteness only an experiential trait, or can something be existentially finite? I am probably getting into the absonite territory now.

Are there real examples of each of these different types of omniscience? Well, probably not, but it does allow us to flex our brains a little and give such characteristics the attention they deserve.