You know how people sometimes say, "God only knows [about this or that]"? Usually it's when you've just asked them a question about something and they don't know the answer and they shrug or sigh and say, "God only knows." It's grammatically incorrect. Well, it's either grammatically incorrect or else it's doctrinally incorrect. It implies that [this or that] is the only topic about which God has knowledge, but we all know (or should know) that God is omniscient. Omniscience is part of His definition and so He has to have it (that's Cartesian, right?). So people should rather say, "Only God knows [about this or that]" or "Only God knows."
A dollar to a doughnut says that God's not at all happy about people so often misspeaking this way. It'd piss me off if I were Him. (I wish I were God so that I could just write, "It'd piss Me off.") And it's such a simple thing! And the stakes are pretty high, too...might wanna try getting it right.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
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