Chapter 31
Good Monday Morning to this week 31 of 2022
Brainstorming a verse in the Bible by Christopher Fisher<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Psalm 139:4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Possible meanings include:
Fatalism – God knows people like we know computers and can look at our input-output to determine what will happen given certain inputs. God knows the future because God knows all input-output code.
Mechanical Knowledge \u2013 God can read minds. The mind thinks the thoughts before they are said and thus God can intercept thoughts to know them before they are spoken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Future Omniscience \u2013 God knows all events, past and future, and thus has all the author\u2018s words in mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
General Relationship \u2013 Because God knows all people intimately, God generally knows how people think and can determine what they will say through a personal relationship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Metaphor\/Generality \u2013 This sentence is fully or partly figurative and idiomatic, meaning a concept similar to knowing words of people before they are spoken.
Enigma \u2013 This sentence is figurative and idiomatic representing something not familiar to modern readers and unable to be determined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Personal Relationship \u2013 God is so familiar and personal with the author (not necessarily everyone else on Earth) and thus knows what David will say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sense in Psalm 139 seems to be that God knows David intimately, in a personal sense, not that David is explaining some technical description of God\u2019s knowledge. Verse 3 says that God is \u201cacquainted with all [of David\u2019s] ways\u201d, which suggests that God has learned about David rather than simply knowing automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Far from being timeless and immutable, God in the Hebrew Bible is active, engaged, in
constant dialogue with his people, calling, urging, warning, challenging and forgiving.
Let’s conclude with the context of six verses out of The Message translation:
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God, investigate my life;
get all the facts firsthand.
I\u2019m an open book to you;
even from a distance, you know what I\u2019m thinking.
You know when I leave and when I get back;
I\u2019m never out of your sight.
You know everything I\u2019m going to say
before I start the first sentence.
I look behind me and you\u2019re there,
then up ahead and you\u2019re there, too\u2014
your reassuring presence, coming and going.
This is too much, too wonderful\u2014
I can\u2019t take it all in!
Wishing you an awesome start to this week.
Philemon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chapter 31 Good Monday Morning to this week 31 of 2022 Brainstorming a verse in the Bible by Christopher Fisher Psalm 139:4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether. Possible meanings include: Fatalism – God knows people like we know computers and can look at … <\/p>\n