Mr. Deity and his All-Knowingness

November 27, 2015 • 2:45 pm

Brian Keith Dalton has become God again in the latest episode of his Mr. Deity series. This time he shows what it’s like to be All Knowing, and how horrible it would be to hang around someone who’s omniscient. I like the bit where Jesus asks him if he finally understands the Trinity. At 4:30 the bit ends and Dalton does three minutes of self promotion and asking for Patreon-age—an ad that goes on a bit too long. But, to be fair, I’ll direct you to his Patreon page: here.

12 thoughts on “Mr. Deity and his All-Knowingness”

  2. Very cute video.

    “Lucy” — as in, short for “Lucifer,” huh? No wonder Adam and Eve succumbed to the temptation to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

        1. Remind me again – just who did Cain and Abel “marry”?
          Maybe this is why Southern Redneck Stereotypes like their biblical literalism.

          2. “retcon”?? Capn Jack is in the Bibble? That would almost make it worth reading.

  3. Hi Jerry, I just listened to part 1 of a promised ‘series of podcasts’ by William Lane Craig during which he seeks to disect your faith v fact podcast with Sam Harris. It is hosted by the guy who had to tell WLC that you hadn’t misspelt Jebus. Sure others have brought it to your attention but thought it worth mentioning just in case.

  4. A nice twist I haven’t seen before, the “fact” that god himself would know everything he will ever do in advance, hence has no free will himself. That opens up a new angle, who determines what god does when he can’t decide on these things himself?

  5. In my conversations and debates with, “Babble Believers”, I rely on this concept of an, “Omniscient” God as some of my main, “ammo”:

    If God is all-knowing, wouldn’t He have known, in advance, that the people of the world He created would go, “bad” and have to be destroyed with the Flood? Why couldn’t he have just created GOOD people? When they drag out the, “Free will” defense, I note that if it is possible to hide one’s intentions from an all-knowing being as the result of exercising one’s free will, then that God is not, by any definition, “All-Knowing”.

    Would an all-knowing God walk (?) through the Garden of Eden, “looking” for Adam and Eve, as if He didn’t already know where they were, and would He act as if He didn’t know they ate of the fruit (which He should have known from the beginning) until He saw they were clothed?

    So far as free will goes, Pharaoh was ready, several times, to let Moses and his people go, but, “God hardened Pharaoh’s heart”- does that mean that God can come into a person’s life and usurp their “free” will, indeed, their entire personality, to suit His own ends? Why couldn’t He have created a world where Pharaoh’s heart was already hard (shouldn’t be difficult for an all-powerful being)?

    Then there’s the Book of Job, in which God and the Devil engage in a juvenile, sadistic bet as to whether Job will curse God if he’s made to suffer enough: the devil’s getting cheated, here, as an all-knowing God should already know how it’s all going to turn out.

    Lastly, and most important, why would a God create a world in which He already knows who will follow Him and His rules, and who won’t; who’s going to Heaven and who’s going to suffer for eternity? Isn’t the whole thing a meaningless, futile, cruel, “exercise”?

    To all of which the staunch believer will reply, “Yeah, ain’t it amazin’ an’ mysterious, the power a’ Gawd? Hallelujah! Prayze Jeezus!”

    1. So far as free will goes, Pharaoh was ready, several times, to let Moses and his people go, but, “God hardened Pharaoh’s heart” …

      How about the Lord then executing all the Egyptian first-born males, human and animal, to persuade Pharaoh to let His people go?

      The nuns in parochial school wouldn’t let 7-year-olds make their First Communion unless they could demonstrate moral reasoning superior to that.

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