Omniscience

📌 Pre-Summary Questions

1. What is omniscience traditionally? ➤ That God knows everything—past, present, future, real, and possible. It is usually treated as an abstract, infinite mental capacity.
2. How does SP reframe it? ➤ SP reveals omniscience as a bridal attribute of love—not mere data possession, but intimate, covenantal knowledge. It is the knowledge of the Groom who knows His bride and chooses to reveal Himself through death and teaching.
3. Where is the cross? ➤ Omniscience is most clearly revealed at the cross—where Christ knew all, yet submitted. His knowledge did not keep Him from death—it led Him into it. The cross proves that divine knowledge is not control, but sacrificial union.
4. Is omniscience about control? ➤ No. In SP, God’s knowing is never separated from His self-giving. He doesn’t use knowledge to manipulate but to draw the bride through weakness and love.

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✝️ SP Summary of Omniscience

1. God’s Knowledge Is Personal, Not Informational

In SP, knowledge is not cold or theoretical. To “know” is to be joined, as in “Adam knew Eve” (Gen 4:1).

God’s omniscience is not just awareness—it is relational intent. He knows all things because He made all things to be joined to His Son.

Omniscience is not a list of facts—it is a wedding record. Everything He knows is shaped by the story of the Groom and the bride.

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2. Christ Knew All—Yet Entered Death

Jesus knew who would betray Him. He knew the cross was coming. He knew the hearts of men (John 2:25). Yet He chose to be silent, submissive, and wounded.

In SP, this reveals the true nature of divine knowledge: it doesn’t protect itself. It lays down its power to love.

The One who knows all empties Himself to win the bride.

🧩 Omniscience = the wisdom of the cross.

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3. The Bride Is Taught Through Knowledge

God doesn’t give the bride data. He teaches her through patterns, symbols, death, and resurrection. She does not need to know all things—she needs to be joined to the One who does.

In SP, marriage is teaching. Omniscience is not just what God has—it is what He shares through the Groom who teaches the bride by love.

🧩 Proverbs: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” = She must first submit before she sees.

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4. Omniscience Divides Flesh and Spirit

The Word of God “divides soul and spirit...and judges the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Heb 4:12–13).

This is not surveillance. It is surgical love.

God’s omniscience judges the flesh, not to destroy, but to reveal the spirit-bride hidden beneath.

The all-knowing Word doesn’t condemn—it uncovers. It brings the bride to light by stripping away the false.

🧩 “All things are naked and open to the eyes of Him” = Not exposed for shame, but for transformation.

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5. The Bride Is Known and Named

Revelation speaks of a name written that no one knows but Christ and the one who receives it (Rev 2:17).

That is the fullest expression of omniscience:

He knows her before time, through death, and into resurrected union.

To be known by God is not just to be seen—it is to be loved unto death and called by a new name.

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✨ SP Gospel Retelling

The Groom knows everything.

He knows your sin, your shame, your resistance, your name.

He knows your beginning, your middle, your end.

And still—He dies for you.

This is omniscience:

Not data, but love.

Not control, but teaching.

Not exposure, but union.

He knows the bride because she came from His side.

And now, through death, He is teaching her everything He knows—not as a tyrant, but as a husband.

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Sensus plenior