Omniscience and Understanding are Opposites (Important!)

[Scholar]

I have a very easy metaphor for intuiting the difference between Total Omniscience and Understanding and why one is so often misunderstood to be the other.

 

You have a Line, an Infinite Line. That Line is Everything that Is.

 

Omniscience is Total Awareness of that complete Infinite Line as a whole.

Understanding is the Division of the Line into parts, meaning Selective Awareness! Seeing the Elephant in that Infinite Line requires to tune out the rest!

 

Funny is it not? So, the question is not "Why do you not know everything if you are omniscient?". The true question, which is utterly mysterious, is: "How is it possible that you can know anything at all while being omniscient?".

[Synchronicity]

Great way to put it! This goes along the lines of what you’re talking about: