Wow, that's garbled, and doesn't prove your point.
"Prove" it, no it doesn't "prove" it but it certainly does make a sound argument. All you'd have to do to refute it is show me one single counter example. Of all the people in the world who have an interest in knowing about and deceminating examples of Jewish literature describing God it terms synonymous with Aristotelian omniscience, it would be the Calvinists and following closely behind them would be the Catholics. So show me where any Calvinist or Catholic author has cited an example of such Jewish literature. I can show you all day long examples where Calvinist use the EXACT same arguments as Plato. In fact, Plato plays such a large part in Christian doctrine that "Classical Christianity" is a real thing.
Not only that but the historical lineage of Calvinist distinctives isn't even in dispute. Calvin gets his name plastered to the doctrine merely because he was the one who wrote these things down after the reformation got started but he didn't invent them. Luther, the guy who was chiefly responsible for the Reformation was an Augustinian monk and the doctrines he rejected had nothing at all to do with Augustinian doctrines. On the contrary, his Augustinian doctrines survived very much intact. And all one has to do to PROVE that Augustine got many of his ideas about God's attributes from the Classics is to read Augustine's own words. Thus, there is a straight historical line that connects all the dots from Aristotle to Plato to Augustine, to Luther, to Calvin, to you! If you believe that God is immutable, in the classical sense, then you must also believe that God is omniscient in the classical sense as well because the later is a logical consequence of the former.
εἰ δὲ μή ἵνα γνῶ and if not I may [feel it].
And that helps your case, how?
Are you suggesting that God is NOT impassible? That He can't have a new thought in His head because He's omniscient but that somehow He can have a feeling now that He didn't have before?
What would "that I may feel it" even mean anyway? Would that mean that God would gain an intuition about it? Might that intuition be wrong? No? Then how would such infallible intuition not be identical knowledge?
Lastly, to prove that your translation is ridiculous, all one need do is look up the verse in ANY translation you want! I checked every translation available on
www.biblegateway.com and nearly all of them translate it "I will know" but there are some exceptions. The following is not an exhaustive list of the variations but I included a sufficient number to demonstrate that I checked them all.
Christian Standard Bible: "I will find out."
Common English Bible: "I want to find out."
Contemporary English Version: "I want to know about it."
Good News Translation: "I must go down to find out whether or not the accusations which I have heard are true.”
Holman Christian Standard Bible: " I will find out.”
New American Bible (Revised Edition): "I mean to find out."
New Catholic Bible: "I want to know this!”
Young's Literal Translation: "and if not -- I know"
The following is an exhaustive list of all the translations that used the word "feel" or anything similar to, "I will feel it"...
Oh, wait! There weren't any!
No it isn't and I just got through proving it.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The Greek article is a indefinite article not a definite article despite what the books say.
What I said was exactly the truth and you know it.
First of all Genesis was NOT written in Greek, it written in Hebrew.
Secondly, is it your theory then, that every Hebrew scholar that has ever participated in a major translation of the bible into English, (most all of which were Calvinists, by the way), all were in on a conspiracy to make God look like He was investigating an accusation? What would be the motive?
Isn't it more likely that you don't have any idea what you're talking about?
Why do you want God to be stupid?
Who said anything about God being stupid? This is an interesting insight into the real root of your objection, however!
Why do you equate God's ability to find out what He wants to know with being stupid?
Clete
