None Like Him by Jen Wilkin
Week 9: Chapter 8 — Omniscient
Read Chapter 8 of None Like Him. Key passages: Psalm 139:1–6; Romans 11:33–34; Hebrews 4:13.
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God knows everything — exhaustively, simultaneously, and without effort — and Wilkin explores what is freed in us when we stop pretending to know more than we do.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Wilkin defines omniscience as God's complete and perfect knowledge of all things — past, present, and future, actual and possible — without learning, forgetting, or being surprised. What aspect of this definition most stretches your imagination? What are its implications for prayer?
2.She argues that we grasp for omniscience in several recognizable ways: the compulsive need to research everything before deciding, the inability to act without total information, the anxiety of not knowing what will happen. Which of these patterns do you recognize in yourself?
3.Psalm 139 opens with 'O LORD, you have searched me and known me' — a declaration that God knows the psalmist more fully than the psalmist knows himself. Is it comforting or uncomfortable to be that thoroughly known? What makes the difference between being known feeling safe versus threatening?