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that Ancient saying.
)8(ETERNITY OF KNOWLEDGE
The eighth principle: Is that His Knowledge is ancient and not
subject to updating. He has not ceased to know Himself and
His Attributes, as well as everything that happens from His
creation.
Whatever happens in and from the creation does not update His
Knowledge, rather it is known to Him through His Eternal Knowledge.
Thus if we were given prior knowledge of the coming of so and
so at sunrise, and that prior knowledge persisted until the
sun had risen, then the coming of so and so at sunrise would
have been known to us through that prior knowledge without
)8(ETERNITY OF KNOWLEDGE
The eighth principle: Is that His Knowledge is ancient and not
subject to updating. He has not ceased to know Himself and
His Attributes, as well as everything that happens from His
creation.
Whatever happens in and from the creation does not update His
Knowledge, rather it is known to Him through His Eternal Knowledge.
Thus if we were given prior knowledge of the coming of so and
so at sunrise, and that prior knowledge persisted until the
sun had risen, then the coming of so and so at sunrise would
have been known to us through that prior knowledge without