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Our formulation attempts to reconcile (1) an omnipotent, omniscient, all-benevolent, morally comprehensible Deity with the existence of gross evil; (2) a Deity who clearly interacted with man in the here-and-now in biblical times, yet does not visibly do so in post-Temple times; (3) Man’s freedom with God’s omnipotence and omniscience; and (4) Maimonides’ postulation, with which we agree, that God’s knowledge is completely unlike human knowledge, with the concept that man was created be-tzelem Elokim<\/em> (“in the image of God”); (5) the concept of Divine omniscience with concepts of Hester Panim<\/em> (“Hiding of the Divine Face”); and (6) concepts of Hester Panim <\/em>with concepts of sachar va-onesh<\/em> (reward and punishment).<\/p>\n

This element of our formulation will pivot on a stratification of Divine omniscience into various modes of omniscience. We will distinguish between (1) here-and-now (real-time) omniscience and (2) a spectrum of non-here-and-now omniscience.<\/p>\n

Gersonides hits the crux of the dilemma and grasps at the solution in a way that comes very close to our formulation.<\/p>\n

. . . there remains no alternative but (to posit) that in one way He knows them [particulars concerning man] and in another way He does not know them. Would that I knew what these two ways are!496<\/sup><\/p>\n

[Lord] Incline Thy ear to us.
\n-Isaiah 37:15<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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496 <\/sup>Gersonides, Wars of the Lord,<\/em> Third Treatise, chap. 4, as cited in Bleich, With Perfect Faith, p. 450. (See also Feldman translation in Jewish Publication Society edition)<\/p>\n

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When He shall hear, He will answer thee.
\n-Isaiah 30:23<\/p>\n

Ye fast not this day So as to make your voice to be heard on high.
\n-Isaiah 58:2<\/p>\n

Hear my words, O Lord;
\npenetrate my thoughtful meditations;
\nHearken unto the voice of my cry . . .
\n-Psalms 5:2-3<\/p>\n

Rouse Thyself!
\nWhy sleepest Thou, O Lord?
\n-Psalms 44:18<\/p>\n

For the cause of all is not in the thick darkness, nor locally in any place at all, but high above both place and time.
\n-Philo497<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thus, our general assertion that Divine omniscience is not always here-and-now omniscience is not a total innovation on our part.<\/p>\n

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497 <\/sup>Philo, On the Posterity of Cain<\/em> 13-20 (Loeb ed., vol. 2, pp. 335 ff.), in Lewy et al., Three Jewish Philosophers,<\/em> p. 67.<\/p>\n

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